Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd752e928a1e931…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1f0eb831be50c5be1f6bfd708e9bd08f SHA-1: 5b6b579d0f246313e30305b2d4c11bab2a7bab60 SHA-256: fcd752e928a1e931ccff890eb9684a265231770cbd0a4ef4182a286a9c6a9d95
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=landing+page+template+with+wix'. Additionally, it features a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or content distribution network used for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same 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.com/pify?keyword=landing+page+template+with+wix In PDF document text
    • http://files.doglivershunt.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969768/tobujifoperatobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekepi.hellogrower.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437502/xusapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuwil.soarohio.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874113/jabaxosotelibo-mavitudul-volagexijufor.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/1/0438/2962/4992/files/bluestacks_para_android_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5511/1589/files/dotutorigokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9427/8293/files/99348473958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8280/0542/files/kapitadifulovekobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8658/5764/files/ditufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4340/files/rigasudovigafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1835/7669/files/where_is_hosts_file_in_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8620/8406/files/97969207817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7111/8235/files/wow_different_moonkin_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6295/9006/files/73991050469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7656/4630/files/10029390599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3188/8035/files/zagegiv.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_off0000cd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD88 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 99aed3881ebc4dac7e057c5c120461da50aa0a950b877cfb16b5c870ac9ace1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000df2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2C 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 90ee9d09ad4f93bdef5c42533fe4fecbf8a00bec193cbe9cd791eec867226618