Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0b04273fcbb3188…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 04:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9fa3affad45aaadfbdf172262f733d5c SHA-1: c69b1c1f609a89979cc994d8fc013f12dbe17b5b SHA-256: f0b04273fcbb31888cdb5c8525b147f9ea493b3647f5f0901b39461d7fdb9d73
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users into clicking on it. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as a free book. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of an SEO link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and the link farm technique strongly indicate a phishing or social engineering attack.

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=cookie+and+friends+teacher%2527+s+book+free In PDF document text
    • http://ganonukud.stmarybythesea.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/8116933.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/suxuteregejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0727/0297/files/28881706203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3903/9388/files/twinkle_twinkle_little_star_poem_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8016/3232/files/qualities_of_good_research_problem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9477/6739/files/bull_shoals_lake_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3579/5354/files/miwadexipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7367/4142/files/psychology_understanding_human_behavior.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0933/4696/files/77726748312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5407/8871/files/8_ball_pool_club_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4451/1645/files/wikokogovajire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6987/files/21562522493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8436/5468/files/19166082580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2470/9794/files/weekly_schedule_template_with_times.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/tisamubasajamow.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7942 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 6884fef099f26e17c3021244997c23ecb407a2fc58723a29b0a5894a77405281
font_01_sfnt_off00008b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B04 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 03138ee1fde4331bd7462370c3b64b8da88d4596bb57461ac602e4c13fe6fe63
font_02_sfnt_off0000be1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE1B 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 43e84046d57c5d8edad47de9228ce36feb53c5e515436c294a71041590f3a3a6