Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f97e67da5d87c121…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c33c126bc88e99868b1b8f5a73062b31 SHA-1: 275e4e7c3312cea2222026fcce1c86b1e40a9e29 SHA-256: f97e67da5d87c121ccefb7f5cd26d139aa1bdaa826deb00e6343213423433266
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is designed to lure users with a 'free personal expense spreadsheet' keyword. The document also functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains. One critical heuristic indicates the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.com/pify?keyword=free+personal+expense+spreadsheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.theacceptedlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164556/56a80a255273a9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clydeaspevig.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872285/aae943a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.melissabergstrom.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740211/6261314.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/1/0431/7151/2480/files/jeloseduduvekatapukisoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0083/9841/files/sail_maui_performance_sailing_charters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/38682582855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4982/6969/files/47510360025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/kitevadigiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1458/files/dijulibinilasiworonibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6797/4556/files/fiselewimunanofapesone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6561/files/pumimabidojosijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3313/3209/files/request_for_leave_letter_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8361/2831/files/audio_converter_windows_xp_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7960/5147/files/catcalling_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7941/6473/files/tavavinebizubiwozinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6498/3701/files/cuneiform_writing.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000626e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x626E 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 0fff95eb81c7943681628b1499d68c497f905b8f2566597bdf837d7d22770cd5
font_01_sfnt_off0000739d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x739D 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 99d8e43752952fda81ddf83a81a2365f3b4c3ce7c67f0334b9b076d90678a1e6
font_02_sfnt_off000097fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97FE 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 028dbaa76d48ae99b02248bacea50134e27ed131f5dd39e25ac401de8961e19b