Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d838c5d06bf3ae3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 04:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 79c339e02058d687b948de277bb0c103 SHA-1: 470b13f8d7207eaf262907a23aecceff56e7c469 SHA-256: d838c5d06bf3ae3b88b7d8cf4533863bb9d47857ec2db3b446af16561257407a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=attitude+quotes+in+english+pdf'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to disguise the malicious intent. 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=attitude+quotes+in+english+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.davemounsey.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682335/rokoluzezatebenubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matabokog.hypertubes.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/2794730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roadrunnerkitchen.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814067/terot_daxax_dumidixam.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/1/0428/3006/9927/files/affirmative_tu_commands_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/51707456330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9199/2484/files/pseudomonas_aeruginosa_skin_infection.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7198/7098/files/pepe_minecraft_skin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8489/0790/files/tipos_de_enlaces_del_carbono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/bexesunexepagifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2869/2643/files/2312850555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8802/7555/files/korn_thoughtless_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2522/6133/files/29422846958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4244/8295/files/90114785304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7712/1686/files/5241510493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4032/6300/files/pipikaxulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2135/1587/files/medical_certificate_for_neet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9634/2695/files/80131832317.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9776 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 8816291a30d7da277adcb72583c00fdd426921c794f49af65c108fc11c9eab8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000a8cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8CD 1800 bytes
SHA-256: e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000b15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB15B 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 781331c8cf18a0cb474cca0729bae8c5c63043be4362d1a88f359fecab035ea4