Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7127ec0e0654502…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 20:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 643782be911ace8acaeed96c9ef73e97 SHA-1: 581a32f81056daa2687938c8210987f150c11363 SHA-256: c7127ec0e065450270e3e5924fdf8cfb30740a60f64833197929b2088d4a2210
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body also contains this URL, along with numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The primary malicious link likely leads to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

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=best+self+journal+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.bluelightplayers.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636644/4697924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kellyseyelashextensions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406082/lozulivaf_sutuvi_turuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clearingconversations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/7524430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myfaeryoracle.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454436/2100024.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/1/0434/9722/6402/files/rebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8994/2945/files/rental_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6845/files/56417432999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6112/5025/files/capitalization_and_punctuation_worksheets_2nd_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1526/6713/files/xujubazedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8865/9100/files/applied_statistics_and_research_methods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7045/5965/files/auden_poems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8462/7624/files/call_center_quality_assurance_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0870/4164/files/sisamumokajini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2040/3356/files/bobemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3106/8825/files/penndot_address_change.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2801/3475/files/bevalij.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: akiineventos.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7153 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9fbd69bc651d14f5649cadefe5d52344025b2a05eb4fbe7dd33d7f2bb628ef
font_01_sfnt_off00008353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8353 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 7ff2498453a2538c9b11251740def26789a9b63998643a585a845e4cd669748b