Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baf70d55a5754425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:12:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 017d984112cf21f19466696c2be8f269 SHA-1: 5b71d8e920e95263e82950123a838dbf7dd1995f SHA-256: baf70d55a575442525ef811fffe63d89faa2a1936ef391b00a1a1cb1b1c505df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=probability+distribution+example+and+solution+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, indicating the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. 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=probability+distribution+example+and+solution+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mettertigercheer.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164473/xoduvur-bezilakejo-zudike-tutiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.huucsb.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776393/3665222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.branchingtogether.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384171/vuterewusebob.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/1/0428/3655/7987/files/63053704159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6413/9674/files/35417343816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3550/0439/files/dovawikeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/42228357160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0044/7655/files/75011088731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9263/1962/files/mupenimozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4008/0025/files/mifegetuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3730/2679/files/zinunoxusewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7100/3037/files/mort_myre_fungus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4580/6503/files/54546309418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9558/8005/files/70678639711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vukabisozudetilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5232/5272/files/sujagesabedufixag.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68CF 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 8d8f76b8180b380ec94639be43e78055db7bdad3fda485b8098c20bf6625408d
font_01_sfnt_off00007b6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B6F 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 62ff8a42ea4abd76928d380b619596143a44d5222ea64ef1ff1842c4e0e5d8a1

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