Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d935e56eea52286f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4e5ad92d999d62b870139d9ca64357af SHA-1: 17bef7974ecf8abe20bfdc34029fe9c56bf8c8cd SHA-256: d935e56eea52286f4cef9faa4f48ed1557de0d2aa1d95b13069304219e1cedac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Html to pdf convert online free' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a site that likely hosts further malicious content or phishing pages.

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=html+to+pdf+convert+online+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.imagesbyk.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455198/telademubakedijezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedefo.bluestarjumpers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453109/c300ec9981d40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.utahskillsusa.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398184/620f84abd46d0.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/1/0433/4718/1718/files/mdn_javascript_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2813/2519/files/xusenerazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/93861148098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2125/files/22440137996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2186/7930/files/1922947734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6631/0299/files/emuparadise_tampermonkey_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0513/2456/files/25364230609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4013/files/3426964925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4546/1909/files/joe_weider_bodybuilding_training_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3107/5743/files/89931442642.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004dcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DCF 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 0377d92078e32ef96c49063bde87171875de1193261342f4c810686595faaf44
font_01_sfnt_off00005e84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E84 9984 bytes
SHA-256: 9ea2b1b8e5bf0cfc3e77d7d859d1e518a1b60d865e3e3f1e777875433974455c
font_02_sfnt_off000080e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E9 16460 bytes
SHA-256: 57ddb710db4c46e909659c2af6120e047c12820e482b5ba9df346584e33ddf2f