Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0b70efe0dceec5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2020-07-30 18:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a6828a3d13f439a2e2da1505c944ef39 SHA-1: f8d491be1740f0efac996a4b59591742718cf608 SHA-256: f0b70efe0dceec5ed3abb9d4fa7c8b91b7b7474042ad731b7f9d1b83ffca3236
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of embedded links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is known to host redirectors. While many other URLs point to Shopify, they are likely part of the link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wb?keyword=appointments%20in%202019%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.beonegallery.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637226/paloriwudasexadose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.4arrowsoutdoors.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814672/1910526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.itchyfeetphotography.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303329/5137734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.just5minutesaday.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874316/7687634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yogablackpool.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871535/kuposi-kalege.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/1/0437/1880/3605/files/xibufikivakefunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8726/3899/files/risovixagufakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3983/3767/files/59148158520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4978/files/89202320954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1488/0405/files/vivosibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8249/8716/files/87030726215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4744/4903/files/pizadijinakurunefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62222626122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0228/1633/files/9380528652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2392/files/48786389412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9092/8026/files/tolada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0902/2886/files/63515356862.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_off0000d43d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43D 5108 bytes
SHA-256: a18383613e28a0639267ce686005053c0c04f4e11b66f7b33dd09259b04c8b00
font_01_sfnt_off0000e58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58C 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 4faae43e05d29a57530a5f9a0235bd938b83ea4da6253071cc71ffdef83ef95c

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