Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c38479b2190c7df1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:33:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7fbe9f90c4a42429f3c5fd304b6a892b SHA-1: b08f23ce226c5335ab6659eb63005eefc73104ff SHA-256: c38479b2190c7df10cfa43c168fcea675b0bb2635679dab8ea94afca2e3e7db0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. This suggests the document is part of an SEO-based link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The embedded text and the structure of the links indicate a deceptive attempt to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

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=telecharger+carte+du+monde+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ceramiq.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636808/xopunimawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scfhca.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607010/pifilo_vegajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bulverdepregnancy.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379246/2812791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.riveroflifecambodia.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164355/5741545.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/1/0430/0010/3073/files/11504174686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8197/3403/files/minecraft_oak_tree.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/69014942618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5697/1432/files/2471781753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/the_dirt_motley_crue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3900/6618/files/67617411785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8463/5544/files/dynamics_of_machinery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5265/5002/files/68229009301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0067/6001/files/adeline_yen_mah_falling_leaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3436/1503/files/varufedotasejaragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sogogetuxupoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4635/4594/files/63422891540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92702877098.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_off0000653a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x653A 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1a05f89d7bd2a6fa9569e887ab8d62e0a880ac2c0d6fb8733a5b6f6d01175d
font_01_sfnt_off00007733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7733 12480 bytes
SHA-256: dcf2aa4f040d40609fff2613eef7dd67333f4294a10e62c2c4001d9e2ac361e3

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