Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef9a12b35715fdc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-07-31 22:19:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5fd686d3ea81bdf8c75243bef5e3f7c9 SHA-1: 48ef13dd8248dc04e809cec6dd00d7fc42bd8923 SHA-256: ef9a12b35715fdc11c345dfe439dc8fa79fbd44eeab2cf1f03e61bf7d499721c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector service (ttraff.cc). Another critical heuristic identified this as a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The document body contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bamboo+cth-+670', which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phishing lures.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bamboo+cth-+670 In PDF document text
    • http://files.abmodelmaking.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874010/9901382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.isawyournutsmommy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383549/49293f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michigantales.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739343/1851483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0698/3318/files/93838835705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5813/3152/files/62936786196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9980/8149/files/zurusibibibemozekodemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gimuwuwizarisatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2525/0974/files/24214459457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/berasuponodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6160/files/tobowuvejugisujunowuguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2309/6216/files/kujifupezegirurunirike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6345/7432/files/menojulodusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2351/5294/files/642356355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4765/6343/files/90809137667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5378/3957/files/konomuzipeberug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6455/6710/files/36158279350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4215/8245/files/49328253076.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5054 4848 bytes
SHA-256: 8c28d92996b520e308d6e1d5f7310cb360f526f06d5630b09325747b012abf38
font_01_sfnt_off000060d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D2 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_02_sfnt_off00006960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6960 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 0bea90f9560108ebc217428ee25b4539436fdeb5c99c092c18ec9082f2348347
font_03_sfnt_off00008c11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C11 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361