Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e084425b0768c866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f7af23dade732181ea1d804806552662 SHA-1: 6adfdb173d2cf01629b49199b2ec7883ebdcec02 SHA-256: e084425b0768c866a2e2c19945fa940f24c7c863ef1e73a53d4aad94d1451516
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is used in conjunction with the lure of 'homophone worksheets 4th grade'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains the malicious URL, further supporting the attack pattern.

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=homophone+worksheets+4th+grade In PDF document text
    • http://pivazov.fleischerstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/2b5055dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazulor.theelegantrider.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/rowovaliwewit_gubijowavidajid_legubelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://felames.inbirdcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384169/5887560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.folsomlandscapedesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740778/1379019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kyasports.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814346/1142409.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/1/0430/8225/2442/files/96917372262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1081/files/zubuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0487/files/bitufifipikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4752/6305/files/honda_metropolitan_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0506/7943/files/zumavuboroligavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8140/8420/files/91943677159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9276/2006/files/wojufeduzasuxebexaxago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6192/6293/files/91846035342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2825/0781/files/98444870510.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4445 5544 bytes
SHA-256: a67f5b65283b60240cdf5881b22c5b5d7da14fa82407118737ce3dfa803692c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000570b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x570B 9444 bytes
SHA-256: 990b5eec1762e9db5c3490f2e1ee8fd956dc921e610985954b6957b6b15fab95

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