Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efc0d5a02041c69a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 07:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5d19a48dd0e09e81c391d8f187a1a9ec SHA-1: e88f60e67f311d2b320eaa88d623004237c022cc SHA-256: efc0d5a02041c69ac882011180477e05083d42fd8d21ef961e1125be850b2a03
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a high density of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic flagged a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=smiley+face+stickers'. Another heuristic indicated a large PDF link farm, with many links hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious redirector URL and several Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to entice users to click through to potentially harmful 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=smiley+face+stickers In PDF document text
    • http://files.moondarraarabians.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483108/kadimijadod_nedijupagofa_xurewidubenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cresaptowneagles2883.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/6627144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.collinscovecottage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406288/zuwewokekuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.swagatabanerjee.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406650/noxikewiwifidi-luriner-junomu.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/1/0433/3443/4969/files/lunaluxenepesubigebofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9590/8761/files/76071245120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1143/2857/files/46501169310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7737/8972/files/wibuvixikobenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1214/5823/files/69363914629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1263/5299/files/cheating_cookie_clicker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0531/3177/files/nivasipazufoxanidorufuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5085/2762/files/wejujedopobuzuwezinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8890/3325/files/87788459225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8438/1337/files/rekafazizavusaduloguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/82778025321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7701/6483/files/pemaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/radio_shack_basic_electronics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8992/0154/files/how_to_set_day_in_minecraft.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
🗂 Part of campaign: cresaptowneagles2883.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EDE 5296 bytes
SHA-256: aa305d0380a0d04fd3eb72156c4cd76c42e45ccb48814add1bf8dd9951bde5be
font_01_sfnt_off000080d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80D8 13168 bytes
SHA-256: faa2fd1052c23c013d22e334d296ad0ff6f23294a6ac86a905c1c2fa957e398f