Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bae732908aae620c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d597b7494189f4ffb25ec0cc6d34bab1 SHA-1: f2d372cdee17d650d6c95d8f84356c1fe1d64cf7 SHA-256: bae732908aae620cfc9620e8655e84659b3697d592909d8b3c22ea57182a8c57
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a high number of embedded links, many pointing to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cuneiform+alphabet+copy+paste In PDF document text
    • http://files.zoningatl.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712268/128c84f13b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.halweinberg.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775370/6435946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.msdiglobal.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740747/piwunudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6879/1713/files/vugumusolipixiluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4995/8046/files/nimidewexexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4995/1138/files/36516808364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/apex_programming_language_salesforce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9005/8152/files/53597219247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5358/8390/files/notutinitopize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6354/9847/files/92801467157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3910/4917/files/fjeld_og_fritid_nrreport_bningstider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004f0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F0B 3496 bytes
SHA-256: 4089529f6e35161327527ba6f3d522b556bb0b2438f4aec1848816456708f124
font_01_sfnt_off00005acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ACB 5404 bytes
SHA-256: b2cfba4b8812875faa01cb5b300f2a12f958329f35373fc3239e580c2159c3de
font_02_sfnt_off00006cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CFF 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 8b4954ecd1a55f4cd59bc6c005c11b07e1b3f37fc8e6fe42565c149b8618d7e5
font_03_sfnt_off0000a4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4E1 17996 bytes
SHA-256: 098c360b9502c4ff7351c7a5865d163f5235e020838380da4b3950bfd3d51a6d
font_04_sfnt_off0000c14b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC14B 6104 bytes
SHA-256: 565aee6d6a33be383d4256134f2f74cb8f20ecef80307668cfe5b7791413fe64