Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed9fab034343b42a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:43:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe7aa1f4c8af9a3fa7e3111da28b2903 SHA-1: 34a1dd2663586a4549d55ab8fa5c07d342d401a2 SHA-256: ed9fab034343b42a2e25150d8abf16d761b49fac853b3b9e8d506728fc24fa22
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=march+past+commands+pdf', which is likely intended to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious redirector by blending in with seemingly benign content.

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=march+past+commands+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.irishshepherdshuts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776809/gojogujomepap-xugazivurig-vilenipepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.d2studios.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738596/daraw-wezefizelor-livubo-fuzifezike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totijozam.steppingstoneschildrencenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775448/8a1e6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sanssacredcircle.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454255/dokowinataginaxuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilisasab.pointofviewmedia.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/287930.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/1/0429/3269/9292/files/wolagexujukuxalukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5567/7591/files/jagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8927/0686/files/opera_browser_latest_full_version_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1615/9385/files/xasotujowafalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3166/4552/files/98037788546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4705/0661/files/aashiqui_mein_teri_new_song_ringtone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4048/0155/files/japanese_english_bilingual_visual_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7973/8278/files/github_readme_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2243/3953/files/wegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0553/3604/files/90635658858.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_off000099f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99F0 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 4760cb639003afc2ba7d34daadec22e24f85b418a697319fa5537925c03ecb80
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC0C 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 51f7964f470c3028131ff455b8638008226b190db4b9fdd958212e357cff4952

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