Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d29c47da95fecdf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:18:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4c2a35016192b4053fccb5a338b585e0 SHA-1: d87a7d2d7616d653c0fe1db91ac551f7ebd02ebb SHA-256: d29c47da95fecdf9af5f5ad86b2bc28af47f01315fdc1dfd37e8a4c450f81d63
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body contains obfuscated text and a reference to the redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to a malicious site via a deceptive link.

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=body+building+status+videos In PDF document text
    • http://files.adaelementarypto.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071056/jejuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northwoodsquiltguild.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776246/9d87468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xokora.speakingevolution.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606255/b0ae96a9bc16.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/1/0434/6124/7138/files/taduvakesexuvagojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3311/6315/files/sixth_pay_commission_pay_scales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7837/5831/files/brisingr_christopher_paolini_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4922/0256/files/spark_plug_gap_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/jobijusapefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5122/7048/files/61231965301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/doworefobose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6113/3990/files/36949082628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/usb_xtaf_xplore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0827/0244/files/translating_algebraic_equations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9213/0458/files/kavigatevoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4763/3575/files/fufiwezuvop.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_off0000606b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x606B 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 5554f693bdef3af2801391ec75ab62f74f526dda5eb9fbee160adee3533d71ea
font_01_sfnt_off00007262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7262 10116 bytes
SHA-256: a053f686a92bca56137129e15999cdf71eda7445a3dd7556859ff08c23dc6cdf

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