Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda25ac24398983f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 11:13:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c36c1a75e252538339eae53c0360779b SHA-1: 13cc602c6630b081824b4e273f4ba17b2141c4bc SHA-256: eda25ac24398983fca5b12bb895f37a778f44ce105e5902dbcaa05a7a077695b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=super+activated+carbon+pdf`. Another heuristic flagged the document as a link farm, with many external PDF links, some hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=super+activated+carbon+pdf`, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=super+activated+carbon+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xunuxoxem.humanitaseagleeye.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453416/3b39f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rukow.bodkacoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738894/d7e7f07.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/1/0463/5063/1073/files/kulovexopamodojenenubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2931/5229/files/how_to_make_a_ringtone_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3621/9291/files/43690021167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4014/4534/files/reba_mcentire_net_worth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4641/1160/files/brexit_deal_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1189/7504/files/1299653807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9838/3260/files/vifogitafegipowixuwudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6764/9698/files/all_yours_stranger_read_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4225/8587/files/92910246514.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_off00005d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D26 5244 bytes
SHA-256: c5a5c2ae9867b009504fec670173ef41a814b7e599f3136deabb8626879473a6
font_01_sfnt_off00006f0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F0C 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 196f1f942b1763cc460eba53d3fa4c4b45287cfd9adde88d0f0386f66870b209

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