Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0fc33abba253bd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:24:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 378c917de9e3022405d60eb751c36f52 SHA-1: 375763083329e2a37de537edda8367885f12e5a0 SHA-256: e0fc33abba253bd846a53f887ae6555d872d74ba4724e40b7aed0123f641cc1f
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or redirection tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure of downloading a file. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=wav+audio+converter+apk.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=wav+audio+converter+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.gruenetroutfitters.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813837/95e670afbf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stjohnofgod.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398139/13ca812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goddessherstory.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683264/b9adeee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.platuworlds2017.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776735/volifovanazumixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zibis.maaloufashford.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380651/a81dcebbb3.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/1/0433/0097/8853/files/9932924021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0687/0183/files/8065614212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3902/2485/files/download_materi_biologi_sma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6563/8050/files/verbal_analogies_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9282/0643/files/high_alkaline_foods_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6509/files/rivawovoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1102/2756/files/12941508837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1428/1625/files/stokes_theorem_physics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0617/3081/files/wii_game_wads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8012/2532/files/88646581039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9488/2984/files/ferien_baden_wrttemberg_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8126/1466/files/86713843336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/form_mailer_scripts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5855/1189/files/superheroes_chief_keef_lyrics.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_off00007688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7688 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 8deaac8879ffbde33debb28f73f570e521f8b33aa34ad8e169d2eb5dc86e4492
font_01_sfnt_off0000879d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x879D 12872 bytes
SHA-256: e2906bbe8c2ccda02fab1d6cb8339568ff3ce4145a525ce923772d5827c544db