Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9835a0134b98eb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 13:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 58b20003c4fe632a1e38e609cdbb76ae SHA-1: 12efd23b3b75942c18e8f6ea7c9ff9940520948c SHA-256: e9835a0134b98eb66739328f1292e329ee89677cb987be56a7a17bc903b97989
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=arm+cortex+m3+datasheet+pdf', suggesting a lure to download a PDF disguised as technical documentation. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a compromised site or to initiate a further download. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=arm+cortex+m3+datasheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sandlakegoldens.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/vokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wexeb.cesariomateus.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856158/566cb96452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujexe.gardentogourmet.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453674/dijejisasanu_pifejorori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.msurunningclub.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683001/369356.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/1/0436/8950/9017/files/pro_guide_draven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3966/1986/files/jimakaravokakepulini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5456/files/berarumaxuxokadidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8540/5089/files/equality_act_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2187/6900/files/5106640641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0259/2410/files/duzupijani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0816/2981/files/kimisebemomopavidibatiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0631/2098/files/zip_folders_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/neopets_shop_directory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2647/files/xujezutaxapitesigififen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2873/6168/files/zamosatowexepoduwuladepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7737/6936/files/ahk_key_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1615/9385/files/21453725882.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_off00010daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAF 9724 bytes
SHA-256: 61ad1dd63cc150433828b2c59581407b7e887e43892f9dcf8e6f56752d4551f9
font_01_sfnt_off00012cf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF2 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 234541f4593863cfe9dad5effc332bc8f0fe8026664196c5f880da4eadfdc798
font_02_sfnt_off00013fca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FCA 16416 bytes
SHA-256: f3a3fda371b5cf47155cb8fbfb5dc41e4938a7ac92f5dbf2b30c9b6333ceafcf