Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc41cedcaee97fd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 95af59e8d01e0016b004b43ac9a7916b SHA-1: 7a66443ac153dd3e4e3c1d0300be98098036e3cf SHA-256: fc41cedcaee97fd5b041c9c0261c34730004b052ec4ef457a0164ef44ea56275
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify URLs but one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=sorting+algorithms+python+pdf', indicating a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through a link farm, ultimately leading to the malicious redirector.

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=sorting+algorithms+python+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lifechurchaz.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740175/zefibifiz-refufovug-rijol-masegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.libertycraftbrewing.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164210/witorumotoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leannewaterhouse.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776861/1549719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sacredkinship.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303229/31df873b2c2c1.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/1/0438/3028/0352/files/lajaberikuvubonewakiwali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4191/2997/files/bidawojobizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7153/6285/files/12501074494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6829/3287/files/pyp_science_scope_and_sequence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1283/9834/files/wapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zetelonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7165/9414/files/sotokedigefere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9763/7535/files/kugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8851/9080/files/annex_3_icao.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0822/files/tawopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1028728638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7394/6275/files/raninuxufogegozuxarobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9628/6111/files/human_anatomy_and_physiology_1_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5063/0296/files/sale_of_business_agreement.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_off000087d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87D0 5660 bytes
SHA-256: e0101b6595b874447f41aec2de01e16ec14c4c5895ca6cb12474e44c7b951a69
font_01_sfnt_off00009ae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AE4 14964 bytes
SHA-256: f04b64e28833fe0d96c01803e4eaae6d8a4eb8a61aea36679d479a7b42e54d49