Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f618dc22b58f9383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:39:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: df504b856365bf22f72888b4e6d4ea68 SHA-1: 23474bc780277358b83028308dc2dc4d20269aa1 SHA-256: f618dc22b58f9383a75668a5189dd8e94089c1f7eab50878957f83c902b753cd
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary payload delivery mechanism. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the phrase 'Basic accounting cycle pdf' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous PDF links and a malicious redirector indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=basic+accounting+cycle+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.aikenkraft.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871864/2fd3b1f410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brookingscountytitle.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683070/mapamokugififizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simplywood.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452803/8d47d21a.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/1/0430/2523/6121/files/luluvidoretaseferawewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5827/5238/files/gabopadetebonumak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3993/2064/files/82825083859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7465/8216/files/70961335966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2427/7923/files/89398823226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5145/0519/files/7754618719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/2000/files/96651601280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9000/9502/files/21221975277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8183/3379/files/22050672205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1942/6197/files/amalgam_composition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7962/2040/files/80314010206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7630/4544/files/84673149452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3458/files/wojojajeragipabobegazivo.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_off0000601c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x601C 5376 bytes
SHA-256: b4e242511c684033dee4da0c2bf619eeb6f41ad8657eb4dd1f350ed5a8b3dc5f
font_01_sfnt_off00007288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7288 10116 bytes
SHA-256: 823aac096800dfa4f604b2efb6fe4f74b4caac75d79a39c32566a1430f114b3b