Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfcaef01d0346bc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:28:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7552dca2cf5ee5bf457c1d45782f6265 SHA-1: addca1c2574120a050da63109efa5080d4d03478 SHA-256: bfcaef01d0346bc716db598d5fe4b77beacdfc6c66fdf19f72be52b51d5c3aca
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=write+a+paragraph+about+yourself+pdf'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. Additionally, the PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true destination. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes the phrase 'Write a paragraph about yourself pdf', suggesting a social engineering lure.

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=write+a+paragraph+about+yourself+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.globalqualityenglish.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398555/1f8eefe7f516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.archilamusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398235/6943018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beyond-the-belly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873918/a49f5964f7.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37144816260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6498/3703/files/84567532780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7711/files/10553908621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3770/4867/files/negative_effects_of_globalisation_in_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6820/3942/files/xelademokabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1867/3566/files/27225289458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1322/4094/files/natumuxulunikibedisejako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6893/9672/files/wudatawoxasiveredelemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/tujanokovidobaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7746/8311/files/popokufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/95509007145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1239/9009/files/fopexinawukifakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/ganimupunorevebedez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8644/4696/files/us_airport_codes.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
🗂 Part of campaign: globalqualityenglish.org 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000653c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x653C 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 3cd6470272e3cfa264a8860262aafa8f86ad2ad35870cd6e5683de781c701ea4
font_01_sfnt_off00007825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7825 9808 bytes
SHA-256: 05f6db30b64148f8ed8cb1f49e3f684430ebac7377c0c048b8ff2bd6e2924398