Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e69f5340c7181c7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e7d0c9eb39b0409d9be0d4575369d025 SHA-1: b948dbd99fb2380346621d089ca43da1ea4e44ec SHA-256: e69f5340c7181c7cbf851085e17f411c33f1ea52e8436b96f3ac5a9a72211e14
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify URLs but also including a critical link to a known malicious redirector. The document body and heuristics indicate a social-engineering lure to install a browser extension. The primary malicious URL is ttraff.com, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content or malware.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=video+from+website+online+chrome+extension In PDF document text
    • http://puxetolel.friendsoftosadi.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/389601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sangerkatz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379991/mafujoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simobulon.johnkkaufman.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/mewefegiwogofage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texekil.lagunaelite.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452903/a76bc13c64.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/1/0432/5765/9547/files/64101197989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85286147205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3390/2760/files/netusenefekatexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/jabowisozogexatisojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2758/files/peratopivunomojorigosikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3564/0476/files/xusuvudilolewonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/xidogibuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3557/3919/files/46296775907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/juvovimenekikuvifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4844/9686/files/nuzunafizaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9861/0589/files/gojifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0441/1556/files/80773125682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4288/8097/files/algebraic_geometry_and_statistical_learning_theory.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_off00008a61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A61 5316 bytes
SHA-256: c07faa51360ccdd34cfb91649eee93ff9e687ba26ceb4effbb07408819ff3440
font_01_sfnt_off00009c60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C60 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 0d8e93d663ba068a130f153e211f6e86d6710a2785e32e00b1197e7bfe965a5e