Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ff2cad3c98af35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 92d5575a8bd52476c0f484d51ccc40ce SHA-1: bda325ab014a4ffbec6ce42815208df66103a5d6 SHA-256: e0ff2cad3c98af35aae567d384531a225ead6e065dce5a25847bfe39a96d1d62
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, creating a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to lure users with search terms like 'bluestacks android emulator ios'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to malicious 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=bluestacks+android+emulator+ios In PDF document text
    • http://lufidive.justritemarineinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775413/nimuzikiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chiminisiberians.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871912/3723905.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/1/0434/5928/1061/files/31451879434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7542/0835/files/88060234800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4756/8039/files/35616002241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2568/9758/files/a_woman_of_substance_barbara_taylor_bradford_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8150/5695/files/vodepawanobenakubezadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/30148074114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0993/1426/files/98954860226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6221/4304/files/58222197795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7361/0663/files/sigebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4791/9522/files/gukofuludomixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0816/2974/files/xuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0212/6751/files/latest_ugandan_love_songs.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_off00007173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7173 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 1f196f9b48f28d60ea94758e18299bba218ad280936aa9732b18aa8abcfa50b9
font_01_sfnt_off000082fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82FE 9868 bytes
SHA-256: 8c1b4c769792c3d6fc2ed0b7484c498d8baf4af4011d7e2f821265d089f531ab

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