Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e25f61b89003050d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:39:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e2e41b16895655e7b9f3107d8c36c995 SHA-1: bba5179f2adfc90e19bb9e7ce1278ee9b38d90c4 SHA-256: e25f61b89003050d1741625837fbe16ada81351c77281f66d308d36b883d3c60
202 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 of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. One critical heuristic identified a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body contains text related to sheet music and a call-to-action phrase, reinforcing the lure.

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=very+easy+piano+christmas+sheet+music+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.smyrnafoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163613/ac256f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.accessyourhearing.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857284/c183d1b940ce600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feduva.amhuff.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969916/tezalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norododom.rdpresets.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/xekenod_gasab.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/1/0427/4031/8375/files/dunijazoxakuzibodexafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9538/3446/files/89859250373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8526/7097/files/transplante_de_celulas_tronco_hematopoeticas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/51970219901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8056/4392/files/holy_bible_kjv_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9266/3702/files/3893534999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2001/0140/files/one_piece_streaming_english_subbed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3504/files/8598099714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5095/0041/files/nuvorujubuvisitiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/vewovixurezokexuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9813/5966/files/77735118949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/wesofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9316/4199/files/5788593743.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_off000048ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48CA 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 428e2753fa8bf19aef8c8c429e468bf388d8e5e52a783ff825c55512b8fcec9c
font_01_sfnt_off00005aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AA8 9204 bytes
SHA-256: 081794dd5a01d5ad57d06aff977592e61bfacc3887210671831c953c538b723d