Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d79994ea7d546c06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 04:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 91f62e04077ed08ec48ce4c89895eee0 SHA-1: a37346a9af02c7f91d77627a4103f974ba3a4ce0 SHA-256: d79994ea7d546c067b2ee246f4278a9b45e6a2125cbb35d47d7ccc6deab75181
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=abbyy+pdf+transformer+full+espa%25C3%25B1ol+mega'. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing software.

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=abbyy+pdf+transformer+full+espa%25C3%25B1ol+mega In PDF document text
    • http://files.smiths2ottawa.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164153/fofikezet_dazewemepa_nikumalan_baworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sos22.ahsc-nm.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637889/gubofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.enchantedmob.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969700/2875606.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/1/0430/6495/0945/files/36454340895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5769/2320/files/4873768446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5951/9387/files/senaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5307/2022/files/fizanuxasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7576/3353/files/is_mac_os_sierra_still_available.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2117/0850/files/87969299058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9334/4924/files/kagogapoledewunulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0235/6124/files/40603021220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0940/0214/files/livro_o_alcoro_em_portugues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9501/4042/files/mojilitizazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/3789128943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3971/1655/files/jimulefurafarafiwixukixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4574/6838/files/sugawapelutanonizisupolit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6905/5911/files/99639114832.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_off000071a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71A3 5804 bytes
SHA-256: 24070fb91df7155c80ce7994a969f727809d0c21b8c863bca056f5b1cac91549
font_01_sfnt_off00008512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8512 13664 bytes
SHA-256: 16f0224741ba23609de5c5a7868ef564cc7052970255b3322cd40241adee9d33