Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0d833cf64d53c24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 21:07:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 569edaa3873418e65df493efd23769a1 SHA-1: 40f75ae7209015838d70c62fc871356381cdc60d SHA-256: d0d833cf64d53c24b13c09dffe3bcde63cf4fd2026052ab87ab5d34e0e150f04
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely to improve search engine ranking for the malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the redirector, suggesting the primary purpose is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=kuta+software+infinite+algebra+1+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.chilliranch.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739275/5f8e7fba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westwoodvolunteerems.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814674/ruzapavorapibu-mojewozobasawe-pejupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lilacvillagebb.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871621/didajisobepufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jasonsmithendo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406060/gabivuzix.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/1/0437/1133/2507/files/86806529330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1026/8064/files/31250729107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1638/8761/files/gelikararozenivobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0211/6772/files/wojoferozemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8758/files/99531696624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5597/0454/files/61342397333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6327/0815/files/9005977853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6839/9524/files/83911401676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2370/3970/files/30708575251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8712/5927/files/petijumobogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5143/4652/files/82466210688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0956/4068/files/nololodasusipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9914/3838/files/35344500068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8473/2829/files/34445217070.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000469c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x469C 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 6c5f2d3dc7fd06e2156cdac5d16c41052a4e4a95996de1658f4baeaf0901938c
font_01_sfnt_off00005871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5871 9204 bytes
SHA-256: ea710a173ff372655b906f4ea5df2fa41a65f9d9ece70aa68fbbb3291b4e695c