Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daa5431c07d19c59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 13:32:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fc38212d723a7ac1f3e84bcad5a84225 SHA-1: 9c714bddc96cdb860dc6b855f945b25c01fcb696 SHA-256: daa5431c07d19c590ca331a7476f38f38b7eb45ff4b900fab82efbd45397d9da
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.cc/pify?keyword=ac+market+latest+version+mod+apk'. This URL is likely used to redirect users 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 content distribution strategy. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=ac+market+latest+version+mod+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.geographixs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739204/suxadojexadadix-pobepebira-burizikelu-nivutonepazid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wezaru.jasontfisher.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/tuniseviwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatizapi.publicarchives.info/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874123/1473928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.slightlyaskewphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815342/c5b7835eeb3771.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/1/0429/7087/4009/files/monster_manual_ii_1983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3784/9762/files/jajutejasipuronuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8860/1503/files/4289032094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pelezegagujagemubejapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1745/3211/files/67645880770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7259/3832/files/29805032919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9597/2256/files/xavutivebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8070/2366/files/47036237002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4167/7731/files/vufituzokegiloki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2358/9788/files/boxabipaxivetevabo.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_off000067a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67A6 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 4f47a2648805a54c7c8175d9eb7351a56a64b1e331ffe1379942cf2a985a8095
font_01_sfnt_off000079a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A0 1800 bytes
SHA-256: e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000822e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x822E 10096 bytes
SHA-256: 70355a5c671bcd10d4389a8255a522ea2878d935e140465c0c98aad8b0909903