Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c01ef1059a7c0be4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-07-27 11:31:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5072f58bca77df6cb8aed4b1f1672902 SHA-1: d263884d47c23154b7f81439ca6d808dfd9f9890 SHA-256: c01ef1059a7c0be465b49160fb0ee90cb21dfa183c884de59cf554ac7137e13d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, which is a common tactic for distributing malicious content. The embedded URL in the document body, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=business+test+plan+template', is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=business+test+plan+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.perfectcompanionyorkies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411539/foporuwatugoka_xoxikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hacklebarneyfarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695832/tuwizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jessieleethetford.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696145/lubanexo.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/1/0435/8445/4817/files/85516826477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/fimorapowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4560/0936/files/gapenabomozewizunigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70474217151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1338/1028/files/kiraxinapife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0207/6070/files/ximiletutaletifafajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3573/5717/files/86402904321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8861/8396/files/33572836881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2727/4645/files/210851145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7514/1794/files/lakokozusigujixotabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5366/2883/files/kibude.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: mysoapkrush.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA81B 4688 bytes
SHA-256: 2a8e06a3b08b6dc6e45cf40f23167b5df093d93227ed324052298ece4c68eaa6
font_01_sfnt_off0000b7e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7E6 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 590538b9b76707b3f4833c3ca32218bc3dde10d0a61ba2c487eccc1d5cf5e3c8