Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd2528c308f2e2b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6c17f6991bccd0d5f4012e6116f20e8e SHA-1: 4c721ffe08c64d32a87c259135d81750a4f77864 SHA-256: fd2528c308f2e2b6c374c03d796dff6f4bfbc01431aa6e447d4c66c9096d70ae
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adjectives+pdf+files'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, embedding numerous links to external PDFs hosted on domains like cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, suggesting a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=adjectives+pdf+files In PDF document text
    • http://files.corneliagerhardt.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814898/sadafigojevita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sawdustcreativekits.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739731/fogixasomo-liwumavelazanu-dusizavutokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wvrra.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406390/wexirubo_besuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southtownscatholic.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636990/3996155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andreanelson.studio/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871690/b02bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0434/0203/5352/files/22792673915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30151397197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1296/files/begudivofijagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9345/9093/files/jexiwukonerime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3587/5749/files/buku_agama_islam_kelas_11_kurikulum_2020_erlangga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3461/4688/files/71395059056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8624/2209/files/xuwodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/18052344986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5103/1447/files/gefazuburevagulupesari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3826/0898/files/ggplot_axis_labels_rotate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3336/files/80729819156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2236/9446/files/lilozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32377204601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4339/5483/files/asturias_leyenda_piano.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D98 1572 bytes
SHA-256: e88443b14e86e4d13991448cb855da87db39bf6dffcfcd92cd5b657ce7a18dc3
font_01_sfnt_off0000759c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x759C 4968 bytes
SHA-256: 3925f1e122cc8077c78d955002b54847fb8e51adcfa91614f49e4ef178bea361
font_02_sfnt_off000086af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86AF 10148 bytes
SHA-256: c2fe2d57e6e6cbb2b66eaaafb0d8dddcf3071c541e8bda07bb445a64081e9ca8