Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e51e507a976e4949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:27:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2e2b47448ce7cafecdf185557ce65e9a SHA-1: 01556d2f9a974471e3bf0e1433124ce10b49ea00 SHA-256: e51e507a976e4949fc84ce09e09be1f8ac281c3611c843795ec6c805dcf7ba42
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure victims. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a phishing or scam attempt.

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=adultery+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wezid.colleencomerford.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/61504cba550561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sezawe.vvsahs.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/xabadatu_rivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stcm.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814397/6612e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drjasonwilliams.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437491/bozoduxaja-sodakigoxik.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/1/0434/3663/8369/files/62785084303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7812/3680/files/radicales_libres_quimica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7850/6909/files/oklahoma_accident_reports_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7950/5822/files/anomalies_du_liquide_amniotique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0696/8483/files/26464311639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7205/2643/files/xenazukalusosegusikajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2252/4326/files/53535945343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6944/8097/files/zepepuwalujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/36897094600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0687/0183/files/kozelesukoxajoviwudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5717/6986/files/dubelotupovifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/zijolibudakikoverazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7214/files/7334689111.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_off000064b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B8 4668 bytes
SHA-256: 60025fdd18bcc70fcd93493a78fc2ef18121f24c6762f7defdec4930284538eb
font_01_sfnt_off000074af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74AF 10108 bytes
SHA-256: bca2448cf7769f36938837b5dbd7b1ba4c4beb3320205fbe57a39d91b7d417a2
font_02_sfnt_off0000973f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x973F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3