Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9768a3a6f392021…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 17f12fc9a32a2bc0d5c4666195ecb22b SHA-1: f2a98655ff18157b606dcb2a2113d683ce4d2f47 SHA-256: f9768a3a6f392021a71556fe14c9dac83f158b95f72499302a7f54e3104c1439
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one specific URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=modern+sofa+3d+model+free, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=modern+sofa+3d+model+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.robertpauljones.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/518fcfbad4483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.encounter-church.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740596/ff4ce0057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clarkparkway.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681992/gajofalim_kaxuso.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/1/0431/6826/8448/files/vibijozudakome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3761/3461/files/22315659763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/auto_repair_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4103/7208/files/valuation_orthographe_ce2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6025/6159/files/milivojowuruvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5570/1398/files/31035219010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6009/1287/files/57333129136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4071/7462/files/34877401713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4927/1975/files/20132075597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1401/9496/files/2955542944.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_off00004d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D23 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 835e3f7386d328570ecc3d280221efa32047b2111648dbd9a04bc707c188b11e
font_01_sfnt_off00005ed6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ED6 10088 bytes
SHA-256: 03757762bb2f5a948757b8356f212a471590a5589f38618e7be4bddf1df5423f