Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6ac826d11180c8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 21:02:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 42c7dea5329a3c3e7c51254f064566cc SHA-1: f0ea1dc7f6e6e59ed390fcef44d71cab65d0d0b4 SHA-256: d6ac826d11180c8ffca96ca23fef88b30c4c689b5166f9a58f1032f269149ae0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical redirector link to 'ttraff.cc' which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a benign-looking URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm SEO strategy to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=cg+comedy+video+free++mp4 In PDF document text
    • http://mumujen.myroncotton.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/gonavojesawoluzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doboza.mauirunning.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775997/daxarejokoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasetaz.carriebeleno.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775291/lurexobimuxor_zarujadamivipu.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/1/0428/3754/1031/files/tamil_new_movies_free_tamilrockers_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9843/7784/files/42906423277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6467/1909/files/62213927120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1415/1589/files/kizubibijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0614/7230/files/letozigopotopebufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71062637782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2696/4903/files/85483008897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2435/8298/files/58239059365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4109/4812/files/wugumovonuwajomigodepewi.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_off000050e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50E6 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb77eb23eace1531ef15aa5051d1203e2d56969fffdcc8f490cb7f1469874a5
font_01_sfnt_off000062a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62A0 9780 bytes
SHA-256: 199df1bf8f12b04a4d6166b5b43b9422fedca3145cb3c70c12d2aa53b40ca7a4