Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c061a2bf7af7a5b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d6a3c377e9508425e1ec8abccfa9b55 SHA-1: 4d647aaa06292d5b5e0db4f9b3f5e0c373e760da SHA-256: c061a2bf7af7a5b0897ba4732b18a41a031cb071a9293f79d15d0bbb67547ffe
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links, with one critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.com'. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to download further malicious content. The presence of numerous Shopify links, while mostly benign, is part of a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=fidic+white+book+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lojigaz.leadershipembodimentasia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452890/2133481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tefomeg.michellebergermd.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741009/5f1ac9e672e86c.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/1/0430/0429/7375/files/4462688106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4227/5485/files/fabomumoretuvutaxonino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9272/9246/files/39611863508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/lisujulotovewalalazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9825/0146/files/banalata_sen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7793/5004/files/97244872915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5467/8687/files/33838280349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0116/6498/files/32425553915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/jazofaloluwet.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_off000066d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D8 5152 bytes
SHA-256: d19fa2d0c9eeed280b17592baef1f5313e9f3581d18e6d0ab686924f9543530f
font_01_sfnt_off00007871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7871 9964 bytes
SHA-256: d6eacd3ad95a52f41ed88f2a53f427c996b17824e63756698d01bc0e83f29c23