Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c995d120aa1fdb46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 00:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5c24e1177b3098a1bd3eb12b369fcf8b SHA-1: a2209317b878d67110c516bcd71e2979fe4d5437 SHA-256: c995d120aa1fdb466994861fadb08a28c16a8c8a0864805902aef539c99e73ac
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 redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to PDF links, reinforcing the attack pattern.

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=ziekte+van+crohn+symptomen In PDF document text
    • http://files.stevenleeweintraub.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681985/3620390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crishayantis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379761/xemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vvsahs.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871970/nataruvizawogixeluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uncbearsvolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775519/xulefiv-xizewamotoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mriteacherresources.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814272/9336362.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/1/0433/9567/8359/files/casanova_games_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6824/3624/files/47674233650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2652/0986/files/3176805245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3263/2730/files/monefibefera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3092/1895/files/19070647503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9862/8501/files/bumajefawujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1184/0927/files/24078596106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7698/0629/files/illinois_annual_report_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8999/1582/files/30994554742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7940/1634/files/doraemon_ka_cartoon_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5208/1053/files/proletariat_vs_bourgeoisie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5302/2369/files/engineering_mechanics_statics_dynamics_5th_edition.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_off00006c98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C98 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 2e18b4a7c32c08e6781e220094a5d0d3c561937bf9e0d2cef41acab4225c7a37
font_01_sfnt_off00007e96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E96 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 6850721b4fca4133c1b9a016416ffa0eee12968b3a9771a2e46a7b097bce56ee

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