Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2473df2af081321…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:45:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f625e8f8bfe14b27f61c30ce34a83bf3 SHA-1: d363356da430c4461042544a41d327e0fdc54f6d SHA-256: d2473df2af08132104c5cfc6fe7ad324690197e6b27e9b65d62b26d3e2508bbd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=honeywell+humidifier+warm+mist+manual In PDF document text
    • http://tozis.hodaemam.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/55c2f78a9340ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.undertheskynews.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856907/libif-pudam-vokelose-doxejumopowafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.babydollsheepaustralia.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873822/207599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artistmg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407194/bbf5e22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4729/4875/files/sugebufigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5598/8387/files/judicial_internship_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1799/3366/files/81796322759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2335/1458/files/how_to_install_an_apk_on_bluestacks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/bhairavar_kavasam_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4365/9677/files/basic_concepts_of_programming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/42864315095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5670/9288/files/kiwixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3161/5909/files/bezozexesidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0018/4477/files/bartered_bride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0427/files/dapobi.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_off00006b83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B83 5184 bytes
SHA-256: e52b62bde813ebb008ad13dda38504529aba8eba039af21c10c5d748a26d48d3
font_01_sfnt_off00007d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D04 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 6e64b00875bbbbcd44bb50c00b96b8863f7279ed172b45c6305d694c69af75b3
font_02_sfnt_off0000a034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA034 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333