Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7d2b88e5bcffc78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:52:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: abd5c5756336072b632968dedc268ef6 SHA-1: 0fbd36263b122a9e7094dbf03be3d34276dd3746 SHA-256: c7d2b88e5bcffc787cf13fd6e5376fa35c75b255c266ea34b0c7a1b64419ead1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same URL, reinforcing this finding. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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=combo+box+in+ms+access+report In PDF document text
    • http://sefoniba.morethansoulfood.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/b390c5cd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxufuxo.systematicbiblestudy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874631/deluwobudorofi_danuwipepakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.exploreproductivity.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453124/f93f0aa08ce8fa8.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/1/0434/0691/7799/files/68292955221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5013/9801/files/fomujitilepivukuxadidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0671/4268/files/bopukawujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8482/3205/files/29424244883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/surorut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4674/3709/files/ethernet_frame_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19941062624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9410/5509/files/86938335484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2674/files/14316997165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9816/7713/files/wimezanezuvejaxotonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/css3_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0276/4184/files/6304750463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7677/1224/files/xuborisejajafewagerelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4295/4661/files/72663056814.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_off00006f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F90 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 171f4de0b730d6eeccd019d800c35905dff22a54cef69f7a13f12b52a701db79
font_01_sfnt_off000080f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80F9 10444 bytes
SHA-256: a48aaf0656ecf68b4e9cc020ae38c5757e898ce22883535de79c7ce24d95ef37

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