Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6e3d079b68c0ce6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-09-18 05:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 816aab3255c6feac4c48431e6bbd8a41 SHA-1: 3d376e56e32666400d8f7696364f4c51ac4c161d SHA-256: f6e3d079b68c0ce69939b3a514b104b2f4237feed579bcb47eda3ecb24647be4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.me, which is disguised with a keyword related to product manuals. This suggests a social engineering tactic to lure users to malicious content. The file also contains a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.me/wix?keyword=ryobi+electric+pressure+washer+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.mydetecting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776218/ce4d8da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajakesum.lex-sing.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/ab8056d1c85f.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/1/0430/5272/8474/files/besame_mucho_partitura_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3363/2678/files/mifudikaxeginukigodotejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2935/4903/files/topupidixiseletomofaxozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6017/3717/files/zunubajidenilimalazaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/9487/5800/files/falusutalodezenomatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5633/9861/files/xaruparupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3151/0690/files/91428297689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1555/files/chaar_sahibzaade_movie_filmyhit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7346/2434/files/closing_balance_sheet_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2258/9853/files/viberakosegizarov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9079/5941/files/biblia_de_estudio_para_la_familia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2132/files/minecraft_football_skins.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9918/4551/files/fball_f44_data_sheet.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_off0000722d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x722D 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 1d5c60a9c4805de45c6d690dd748fdb438094f83247e1adb3b1ca3faf779cd4e
font_01_sfnt_off000084dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84DD 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 9cc9df319a5bfaaaf39557c9791e9f53ca49003424e1fb286f61f1a9fe92682f