Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e007496d7f0bc430…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:38:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f5ee849cbc1c9e30857bc39fc30ac415 SHA-1: c0fe2424aa918b98e453aa31b1b21e97b76e7c5d SHA-256: e007496d7f0bc430eb3d9d0b8950ff0f7e1fbfd5e6a91db71a5cc819b105a2c8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a list of other URLs hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=airy+stress+function+derivation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.superherounfolding.online/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636855/gusuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ondragonwingsstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398046/16d36d066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artiststeverodgers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437131/lizoradatejup-girefatetasero.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/1/0431/5152/4008/files/54676589433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4517/4939/files/48923452368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4068/4697/files/87930366038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1700/2405/files/domasugazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9621/files/30645872116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1646/2229/files/78245582640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8600/2843/files/metixaxedazoloxami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0954/7174/files/93841598685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8489/0790/files/97683390650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2663/5162/files/52121301758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8438/1337/files/7479690952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7704/1304/files/gelurovavabel.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_off00006dbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DBC 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 088271a6a642a92e1e48a04a2ad575c7834424a31e60ad893c741fb111b516e3
font_01_sfnt_off00007fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FCE 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 35711898934a0a3dbb56d4613899f8d308d70c8ba0169779da14ff3fc4a2da94