Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f36500644c04eb4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 11:29:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5a41a909b9f9328f5721563154d0ba48 SHA-1: c801b8b327838c43323fe42bff73337a0e7a4eb7 SHA-256: f36500644c04eb4cd17363d13dc5ee8bd3de5f0f15acf72bbc9ae8859560738e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a tutorial download, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The PDF also hosts a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely as part of an SEO spam campaign to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports the lure. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious activity appears to be the redirection to the ttraff.cc domain.

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.cc/pify?keyword=adobe+xd+web+design+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.iesagency.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738741/4977867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hondurasmissions.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740978/wimul_xoxasazaw_sawagukalugipar_sopemulori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fofese.dreamility.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/voginebepazuwiwale.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/1/0429/7592/0282/files/rikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8946/1410/files/78543577491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4555/files/94885699418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4999/2870/files/quotation_marks_symbol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2282/6142/files/96301143401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0066/8065/files/fumirulejurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5906/1670/files/16033945703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0156/0737/files/82726791856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7063/6710/files/81753750679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/86181160419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9419/6902/files/40577030184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4016/files/71138499556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3853/0965/files/71068039626.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_off000075c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75C7 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 4096fbffd8477a2f86ad8e4f176fd0c7fd789a5a7bea1f194bd2f3310d7940ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000889a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x889A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: e0d65377e9ecd352036b4b750a6f8be24a3ea6c8a334e975089a3812c7aec7af