Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb9d172f2435e8a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-07-30 23:07:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab652f4b1b14d989016b1b710df1b7d2 SHA-1: 69d5fd9ecd2a6f0f8f8f38da38baee6ac82d0fad SHA-256: fb9d172f2435e8a8f397df4cc7f49754aacf37299d6aeed373bc5d9cfee2d401
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a high density of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt at SEO poisoning or link farming. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to academic resources, reinforcing the lure. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure via these embedded links.

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=mathematical+statistics+with+applications+7th+edition+solutions+free+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hhsalcorn.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/waxujal-razim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.voicesofthevalley.co/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969965/mupivaxezepilovamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caa4caa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696015/5130860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mindrawise.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383760/5fd0de7cafea60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.domaplasma.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164534/gifuwubumip.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/1/0429/9233/7059/files/bobadolajegopasidaposobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5833/0786/files/fuzotazenuvixivali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8110/4541/files/91516183026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7485/5846/files/bepikibezufinases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3881/8982/files/85474408078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lofexunixepufatomubudabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7323/1258/files/3576710265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8864/files/43861659067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0053/4952/files/12373606916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5907/6502/files/44027223064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2230/2888/files/78202147975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2281/8200/files/76654149174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/34694099583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3524/5214/files/sidizemulezaloveladapeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3876/8294/files/52445487912.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_off000062ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62EE 5452 bytes
SHA-256: be90ca4b7cb15ec0f55461f59e3dfa8fe45238bd8100bc0721dec67a99b6772e
font_01_sfnt_off0000756d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x756D 9784 bytes
SHA-256: b8cb0d9e080bd2c5ba35bff8b2381e512c8bc155ed5fa2e8637461b887576a3b