Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed0bfa8a492caeaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:27:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 52a8766e3f077ddcfcc7cf9d6451b256 SHA-1: faa9eeb0f9a495a8879a7938f4a790c2c84321aa SHA-256: ed0bfa8a492caeaa5a8331d8ccc0ee5f31bee64ed6017f00b272cfc414698681
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDFs hosted on various domains, including Shopify. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a further stage of the attack.

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=abrasive+jet+machining+video+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.premierheartgroup.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437775/wabowixisaputilosogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainmodelaires.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482959/pizanawowinutavored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chardontomorrow.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871992/givotowuka.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/1/0428/2122/2567/files/free_reloading_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1541/3661/files/55842040199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6598/3655/files/mapa_fisico_de_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6457/3593/files/41377310291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/cyclops_depth_module_mk2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5503/0170/files/third_conditional_reading_comprehension_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8095/7593/files/bekomukapitalineduvoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6471/1575/files/child_psychology_articles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5267/files/88200040041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9782/0053/files/livros_de_alister_mcgrath_em.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3669/6995/files/functional_occlusion_dawson.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_off00008d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D3F 5668 bytes
SHA-256: d9db2d73de4d1239547825987c26c7fb70c303f2c8bbc196ca346b9d6e6bb591
font_01_sfnt_off0000a065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA065 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 7616d2cfe728bf54774799fb6eace0d11584aa8a547a9713f69914300d4c16b0

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