Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5e7aa1d7ac73dec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 13:02:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3f7a3c09d3ee6136efdd0c5687fc021b SHA-1: 92db984abd6b2764d751bed1b041b97986dc3f86 SHA-256: c5e7aa1d7ac73dec3b78141878efada6c5e1de2b703828ef34db9a202e80eca5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests a social engineering tactic to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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=ease+my+mind+sheet+music+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dpuntenney.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/9994794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thechipmack.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739559/6030768.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/1/0432/5575/9011/files/list_of_states_in_alphabetical_order.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5286/6467/files/staff_performance_appraisal_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9565/4554/files/13162617305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0449/3987/files/zoxumazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0629/4176/files/gastritis_aguda_erosiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0109/3030/files/36962446602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5537/3720/files/kuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1168/1958/files/congestive_heart_failure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9444/2133/files/famalesevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1515/9458/files/kenworth_t800_service_manual.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_off00004597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4597 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 2661b7d92c97bf3d9aab4b364a4a8f4f09cd9cbee2e5fb4400b0714336cbc4d2
font_01_sfnt_off00005793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5793 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 630b0bf2fce6dd5defd12137bc9824abcfae1c8e639ce4f6c2c61be90b2d7bc8

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