Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd708ca9291e087b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:27:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 53d0502719f5ccf316ff6c65c19d09db SHA-1: 75ff949dec6bea97367b92d3f1a8eba79951001a SHA-256: dd708ca9291e087bf90f761a4d6a3e631cef5084fac643971698adad856b6421
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=simple+small+business+plan+template+free'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a free business plan template. The file also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious intent appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content through the ttraff.com domain.

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=simple+small+business+plan+template+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.priorityoneinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813899/tilidoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1282/4993/files/46321670591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1877/9815/files/rovorafolajibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4071/9516/files/74241288360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9375/4009/files/13771435475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3195/2536/files/calamity_class_setups.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1157/files/fudakuzuvozepeduzesedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1305/4357/files/15298671001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5456/files/junit_report_cucumber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9217/3217/files/ncert_maths_class_6_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1294/0188/files/83133665388.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_off00006dab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DAB 5064 bytes
SHA-256: 42f416b2f14bd8c2c4d3f6a8ccae43542c3e6c0db13bb96b2c98dda7c9511693
font_01_sfnt_off00007eb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EB2 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 873a8964d8a1b99d9e01420bd822504bbba901cdeaaec672ba47272db8db89d1
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1FD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c