Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8215eb9998f3aa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2020-08-01 02:28:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b210299df24bebe264cdfc1f818e290d SHA-1: 2a35eadd1d62184f97ee77aa0c89ac9765babbec SHA-256: c8215eb9998f3aa1aec156343ab504f95fa2d66f66303adf1872e6a2bbda7afc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The embedded URL points to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links further supports the link farm heuristic, indicating a broad distribution attempt.

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=button+css+media+queries In PDF document text
    • http://files.myheartbelongsto.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407036/5763902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pacificcattle.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739146/zimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.worldwar2man.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776245/sijudilabutamikijobe.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/1/0437/2096/6293/files/zixarewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5783/1326/files/tebokagekofivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5570/files/zewewubuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/98012128422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8861/8396/files/install_zsh_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3264/0664/files/wogezapexofikonewasobota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9033/7182/files/20492895754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/60067144304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8762/4344/files/faxepaxonarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/21884581804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5059/8562/files/48018675132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0900/5978/files/parositu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7525/5968/files/dujoliros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1423/2984/files/54842810164.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000136fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FE 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 9657690b6af511d9441c109edca262cb43a1294cc9775d3dd2a827dc2561a0cf
font_01_sfnt_off000148a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148A9 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 80f1d5399f76557d466820c850215db9f4ed0cd3130d95d84ec61b352878c078
font_02_sfnt_off00017fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FA0 16144 bytes
SHA-256: f0a8b786da721c7415a59d91fbce3b20bbb98ea32e48857ac1ff22d53b00ec29