Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0f06c488cfae8e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 11:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fb6ebd9a792a3420c35a4d4b79a87850 SHA-1: 5d77269d1d569e2c19d320a3e3c4d53f435f25c9 SHA-256: f0f06c488cfae8e83f6cd9cb24e5957d2ff82fe0f368b792e6b2d30a288f1c9c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm, with numerous links hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com' and other domains, suggesting an attempt to artificially inflate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=cb+edits+background+hd++2019 In PDF document text
    • http://files.mntcapa.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969472/puvunino_lixixifur_pegofoxabolituv_zozeliwolafixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buxit.thehonestlycleancompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775214/gexujojusuwalumizowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inclusivecatholics.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695586/111682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahpatzphd.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741144/4174aa29d18276.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/1/0437/3718/6458/files/the_largesse_of_the_sea_maiden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8377/5643/files/snes_mortal_kombat_2_moves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9450/6661/files/tetanus_toxoid_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0532/9064/files/20567321405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8679/9257/files/barangay_143_street_league_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3848/1320/files/approaches_to_social_research_5th.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3464/6440/files/67224343780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9889/8592/files/49327604681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4487/files/translation_reflection_rotation_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5966/7363/files/ti_nspire_cx_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6546/files/adobe_flash_cs6_free_trial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9037/8909/files/64902627825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1974/7999/files/98075046758.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61C5 5760 bytes
SHA-256: 23c8739c4bfd4adc6cf8ef497fe3f101a0fd7317374f06196c21c129f150c20a
font_01_sfnt_off00007555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7555 9740 bytes
SHA-256: f79b9055bc1a6fc2e1f84249b15ad894eddec0a0596119f623ec7061cd84036f