Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f370bcb5362ae4b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:24:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 45b6397489f66a0c994d38297331b58e SHA-1: 7dd0b60ea9f2e33cd5945ef41ba37444845b2628 SHA-256: f370bcb5362ae4b5d75991caabf72f52c6722f1a0a282f1f9a00f94e5d116d83
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=gfffx+fund+fact+sheet'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL and references to a 'fund fact sheet', suggesting a social engineering lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=gfffx+fund+fact+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.southwoden.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969562/386824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aroundaboutfaceandbody.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814001/a087037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miyps.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775949/tenotevute_kakorekolofedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eye-of-iris.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384300/d8410ca9487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumaker.directedapparel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607600/fazasuko.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/1/0438/0377/1041/files/puxafisumazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/35602225224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7074/9856/files/vavixomategab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/13102752033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4576/0669/files/liwagira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/zafawulukivekuzesidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6263/2360/files/75097623107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6797/4556/files/characteristics_of_acephalous_society.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8628/8798/files/czech_casting_andrea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4114/4483/files/dajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/mathematics_for_engineers_a_modern_interactive_approach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7929/3338/files/weleru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3987/3429/files/padi_adventures_in_diving_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0000/2717/files/20263533820.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_off00006e09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E09 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 1e92e25d87da9aa6b26133884dcb0176761f179351eeed8fc9cbbbc2a2fd88af
font_01_sfnt_off00007f52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F52 13672 bytes
SHA-256: ece30b075343ae4ff5bf17fb873d6d56b77d813487c6d2b08bd08b31f069e08c