Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed84be37651395f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 09:15:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: df5be351cdfcf0253a1673b2eeeb5a8a SHA-1: 4d091b22f99e013a4b2e9be32658f4614d824676 SHA-256: ed84be37651395f66a5313b21d29eec888fd8ab31bd5ee7a066b8c5573078da2
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a malicious redirector link (ttraff.com) which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body contains garbled text, but the presence of the URL and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect the user to harmful content.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=cetoacidosis+alcoholica+criterios+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.projectxlacrosse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409597/6125f0136533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daragraphic.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969357/6718141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tenstringedlyre.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739470/c432e96f204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jamestrankina.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872178/e6891ad099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fefifurud.theoptimalageingprogramme.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873951/sararuzirafojoza.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/1/0435/5925/6232/files/2004_honda_crv_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/7997453156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5737/files/91895985900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9245/7112/files/seated_yoga_poses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0078/files/roris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9020/6115/files/89127011406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/95936092566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6488/5397/files/31470219841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8252/2528/files/seiko_watch_finder_by_serial_number.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3050/2806/files/tukawavebiduwusifupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3573/7764/files/zazaxewejulumevagufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3225/6407/files/netogotozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6387/5486/files/vepat.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_off00005ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE4 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 75556b36bd795382cce60977335a8a5314a10d43b210ab9fd4689a642ba736cf
font_01_sfnt_off00007058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7058 10140 bytes
SHA-256: ccc09c541522ea99f44e45bf292d241549cd988a8bf3bb2556321258156bfafc