Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d35d49195f299cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:20:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe32df8e1b056bdec4165ff724289cae SHA-1: 08dfc6d6d04b71d8f0a2839dc50d209a7d3e4eac SHA-256: d35d49195f299ceed51f1f68bdcb4149095b409ff2a6a5b1e8f12b0aeecd1b76
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=social+issues+in+financial+reporting', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. 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=social+issues+in+financial+reporting In PDF document text
    • http://boridugix.southwellu3a.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406379/3456816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beaconchurchofchristgbctx.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970009/5637ab.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/1/0428/4314/4355/files/project_report_on_road_accident.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9970/7810/files/febefiniwuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/rabozubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4714/8950/files/xibufirofexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6558/files/22380819608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4601/files/bittersweet_symphony_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5808/6559/files/zevugorazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8564/3420/files/koruxusivakiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8004/6997/files/65457578809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8083/5482/files/cuestionario_de_estilos_de_afrontamiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7945/0272/files/tuvelipobugogagizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3556/5978/files/how_to_change_font_on_discord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5129/files/veni_creator_spiritus_sheet_music.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
🗂 Part of campaign: beaconchurchofchristgbctx.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C65 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 6369e49807c88994265082d68ea0cf3458ee3fce5889a1d91e679974596ddcb3
font_01_sfnt_off00006e5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E5E 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 9dfb9624ed624a5c3234c39ed004f4172f988a05b5c8ded3146ec40c1383574f