Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc200396d1f4b1e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7c3e7a688e0b95478e6238985ef7b010 SHA-1: 70c497c61025d98bb7414c2e3982939be916d7ea SHA-256: dc200396d1f4b1e6f48946b15522bf8e74f3b780c312acd4dce85dd1074b5820
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of embedded links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=hurtta+adventure+sele+storleksguide', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains this same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links likely serves to obscure the malicious intent by appearing as a legitimate collection of documents.

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=hurtta+adventure+sele+storleksguide In PDF document text
    • http://files.tungbrushph.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379678/karisujizoxotir-napovujade-getolipujoz.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/1/0432/9222/9797/files/loxelema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3850/7169/files/30966623217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8860/0478/files/95888846959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9845/5705/files/61571990585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58933331969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6177/1430/files/zidesemupelovofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/deved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6295/1077/files/2980199344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5806/9655/files/2965817326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4189/1238/files/35307434970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2078/7613/files/pdf_decrease_file_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3636/9318/files/43438572100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/illinois_boat_bill_of_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1851/0745/files/wokitojovedumozafefetek.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_off00004b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B56 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 347ce369bf0753138e20ad63ef201a8c3016690d8cee079d544bf1fef72f2a3d
font_01_sfnt_off00005cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CB3 9768 bytes
SHA-256: 95d04dbd4a525ed3f67c2155bd254b63cf201fe23cc4e7b6da09f6311d1c0a2d