Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e37478353b013495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2020-08-02 15:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 519c494a3924d938aac9c24471adb09b SHA-1: b11fc4d3a98095c409f2e6ba1dc997a9942074fb SHA-256: e37478353b013495eccbf7b4a21f5948f30a63dc886706ef3026f82aca5646ff
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Soda pdf license key generator' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking software cracks or licenses. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation or to spread the malicious redirector.

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.com/pify?keyword=soda+pdf+license+key+generator In PDF document text
    • http://files.innovativestoneconcepts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438137/18c3558be843cd3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pageantdoll.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/5789459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.workinnvision.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/zudemesenodevakani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wyattnations.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070938/gajedojarewo-ditumugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5012/3943/files/kagazujolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8719/0430/files/xosesifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7530/4612/files/fiverik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4267/6648/files/golisunijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zorugeligix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5156/4707/files/tuxizikezuxulutuvike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5511/1589/files/lewunepoduzinapobuwamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5358/0439/files/jorugozanewumepovava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6961/1932/files/14756204788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4228/3432/files/wekidepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0101/1614/files/53583501846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8345/4872/files/79861398575.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E14 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 0632fee50e08cd22ff4a30366145d36f8ecbb3b09296dd60f59efaa6a16ff5bc
font_01_sfnt_off00009070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9070 10420 bytes
SHA-256: b5cb9dc80b94bec04ad6339f02e57c5f6aa4da6aab6b3fc43da60463ab2cd060
font_02_sfnt_off0000b413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB413 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f