Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d32d03ccbf6a0271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 18:03:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8ea7dee43a4ab1675eb559d07f6f7022 SHA-1: dee3e524a6d2daba44e264c4831fd40132478f40 SHA-256: d32d03ccbf6a02718faa3fca03c597efcaff6cbac57c6d1ba64dd64d4e9e832b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. It also fired for PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, suggesting a large number of outbound links, many of which point to PDFs hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=americanizing+the+native+american+answers, which likely serves as a redirector to further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=americanizing+the+native+american+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.rjhomecontractor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437157/7205456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekukemam.yangoninternationalchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/2423863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bowerbirdfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776484/230722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifestylenmorenow.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606260/1ef107b04c.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/1/0431/8891/2290/files/51901635843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9367/2604/files/44229416305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9382/7485/files/98199732037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2473/4613/files/wosamijodonigoratukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8176/7848/files/75565140750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1627/2547/files/varugobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2794/5879/files/solving_limits_graphically_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/2868962586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5280/0929/files/kutidurutovaloxulunuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8649/5397/files/aptamil_pro_expert_rossmann.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7079/9510/files/funogabonazupuro.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_off00007fe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FE7 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 9a12186a0d96d95ac76f103683ae595775f696b1296492bedd436ce6195b9acd
font_01_sfnt_off00009218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9218 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 7630031bedb1fa89df432a97c7ea7df12220f232814a6ca1b0523063d38db723