Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecda348a5511a2f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 20437935a7e2c200162e3080b3a7ed0f SHA-1: 762325c316584c938a3ca1c61872d3ab01aba7b6 SHA-256: ecda348a5511a2f9c1071a6d4dafe9f90b664228ba18d725ced6ae7c783d20f8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a download for a 'Risk game of thrones' PDF. The document also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly indicate 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=risk+game+of+thrones+deluxe+regole+italiano+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jessynolan.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813764/xiledelofe-japugurag-lufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tysonart.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813111/mewadozu_dopixexilo_jedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dallaswhite.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455621/62529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theraceshack205.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739489/fukanulufisilukaxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.superiormachineandfab.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815154/5810631.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/1/0436/5477/4949/files/emotional_development_in_middle_childhood.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1576/5153/files/afia_its_learning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/psd_to_jpg_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8721/6293/files/72518469939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8617/5651/files/python_for_hackers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8987/9445/files/34374890486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1149/files/xoxosogifapuxajupari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6607/2994/files/46685823145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3027/3435/files/jekejuwesebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5495/6695/files/48133388576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86593634255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0617/1048/files/nms_refiner_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lasuzopaxikabade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/what_are_the_worst_travel_trailers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7927/9527/files/moxulitijizupub.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_off0000585f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x585F 5596 bytes
SHA-256: a8a061e60076505575e9ee273a6b18de9cbfa2da37c93587d956d8746563fe00
font_01_sfnt_off00006b4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B4D 12888 bytes
SHA-256: 07091b0ea698dc2512fd0a2ab17874c333734bd3b547faa6f00b86ba4a1f7779