Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baf45ed209e9ad22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 22:28:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 194ad481aaf323f2aa04d8ad2824a52a SHA-1: e7816e4ade4a4cfa85a32093b43e76b23ab2dc73 SHA-256: baf45ed209e9ad221b00b3b2b09ad7e6ed55be836e35d7dbb7031eacb5b27d0d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Flyers template psd' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=flyers+template+psd In PDF document text
    • http://files.hamptoncommunitykinder.org.au/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637056/8391510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivonuv.alexjtunney.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/7989472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zojow.lifefashionfun.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/b8ba40b.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/1/0430/3287/1074/files/sekutibowadokebokuxozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5932/2773/files/62343678522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8216/files/novorilexenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6944/8097/files/17395057794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2044/3045/files/dajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8779/7155/files/likafozurowupoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0822/4414/files/verizon_fios_channels_numbers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5963/3559/files/19999272449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9531/6893/files/website_layout_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sujufizolotedugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7243/8951/files/14324854435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6026/5117/files/46202434614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5671/6183/files/48522002413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7098/8196/files/41239405238.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6602 5164 bytes
SHA-256: bd0e255405d8b6e76f38155f0fee0a0a3a7aea0d40b951c5395d41aa0e6fcf02
font_01_sfnt_off0000777e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x777E 10028 bytes
SHA-256: ff29f3d8bc5cd5b4b831f90fd38d44640dbabcf6b96db543b8e5df6119fe03cc