Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd9529aec1125054…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-07-30 00:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7999e68960342e6c80ef5844bc9fe2a1 SHA-1: 5715bc8aeb89898c6ee107e23f838cb37d6eb006 SHA-256: fd9529aec1125054601696881c063d66e19a45aab3faad659b042f8e92bfdd97
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 ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Canterbury tales character analysis pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The file also exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, many of which are to benign Shopify domains, but the primary redirector is malicious.

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=canterbury+tales+character+analysis+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.millbrookrotarydirectory.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/d99ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.musicfromthewestcoast.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164474/64c2ea2c8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rctutor.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683330/fopozazobijesalatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.milwaukeetoireland.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739928/59df02292639048.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/1/0433/5920/7592/files/86432229511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/45703700524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/1321832290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9975/0560/files/wilisiwasugomoxipojuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9202/6271/files/bununepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1065/3338/files/xutawenuwosivefinenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9468/8423/files/46077835489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2045/0972/files/jawaputumive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5077/0333/files/90322471812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6546/files/87607655781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6411/4843/files/52282393813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4107/files/157506206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3051/8682/files/87777429218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0862/0701/files/zagixifofepe.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000773c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x773C 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 5d33c44b34a8643d955bbb25e689f89e1276866ccba07c5a729553deb6fa96b5
font_01_sfnt_off00008923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8923 9864 bytes
SHA-256: 0713b3c9d393016720ae5d6dfed5e3a648f8951c105ec7249500d7b590b26c86

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