Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce8f9ca607223037…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:31:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 63bb7177089329ecf7fcfe89c59ad16b SHA-1: 93ee399d2f5c965c892910ea7b654898a4b051f5 SHA-256: ce8f9ca607223037a71ee85f28778db1998a4eea8fca1c1d170eeee8e6abe60e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bmw+x4+m40i+performance+exhaust, is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to attract victims. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links is sufficient evidence 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=bmw+x4+m40i+performance+exhaust In PDF document text
    • http://files.qiboacupuncture.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681891/gavikoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tibimolat.imsweightlosscenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407668/letajus.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/1/0436/0460/7139/files/calendar_template_2019_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4903/3627/files/nopojuxisega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0036/0094/files/lawesamojegewapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2891/9973/files/kebuwimowabapalirokizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2110/files/bombshell_transformation_workout.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4209/2694/files/multires_diablo_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5430/1338/files/kijuxavelovuxotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9944/5661/files/causas_de_candidiasis_esofagica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3164/8661/files/zofajadijuxafebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0802/4985/files/tufilamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6187/0746/files/belajar_bahasa_inggris_pemula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2386/7805/files/21255017925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0508/3811/files/36358148081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3786/7687/files/bsn_sports_logo.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000045d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45D6 6916 bytes
SHA-256: afee7f1c4978f3d5b2491ca7db48ca8c7068a1f1bec2c98517eed0997f4c5831
font_01_sfnt_off00005d42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D42 5664 bytes
SHA-256: c62126f2ff0f9bb368541039fdd4646845742dd08ca8fc5ac3c5f2299c51c892
font_02_sfnt_off00007067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7067 9240 bytes
SHA-256: 342bd6c1ba78a55d3075718ff6d733be6844cbed4fd89d906d27d50b2d33e333