Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0f3e79d6809352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 05:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8baa054aeb202949d59019b7433d5e01 SHA-1: d0f3d81b6e62fecfaa458a0ef546b559efd6d25f SHA-256: ec0f3e79d6809352931a60604dcf929d1f374f9194c9c8154d19c646850b161e
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 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=format+json+chrome+plugin'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via a deceptive lure.

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=format+json+chrome+plugin In PDF document text
    • http://files.cgcpoems.shop/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740307/5461417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mitchgerber.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681698/xoxozixixorewo.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/1/0438/8447/8632/files/91995436952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3277/1734/files/medical_genetics_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rowogumidakedodovejizana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3728/6812/files/14497858398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1544/files/23607686804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0201/9487/files/zuledavatazoletofubeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4021/9041/files/62236963987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6900/4190/files/50838776449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6798/8376/files/tamil_books_online_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/56617372284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/bartender_basic_2016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4816/3738/files/35561093895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2590/6336/files/bunty_babli_movie_song.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6001 5380 bytes
SHA-256: e49528df916e277ae899d970f18c839facf737d132f45d9f4af4fc7b0d38cd01
font_01_sfnt_off0000721e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x721E 9680 bytes
SHA-256: c5f8eaf88854275c1d42d40a0ed5ae499d6538d50d80002ac41524ea2fc01a69

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