Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd9c65da91c2744a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:28:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 838ea17ef9ac2baa3a9660f1489dd6dd SHA-1: e58eef9fb26cd28794d83ba39a03ebbe150962a6 SHA-256: fd9c65da91c2744a8544bb763c18124bdaaa8d8238030264b71ace4186101697
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to obscure malicious destinations. One critical heuristic identified a direct link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The presence of a 'LOLBin Run Command' heuristic suggests that the PDF may also contain instructions or embedded scripts designed to execute commands on the user's system, potentially leveraging tools like PowerShell.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=number+line+to+20+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.tephracurlycoatedretrievers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776511/6419297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hkyours.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738841/kukibed.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://files.tealpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873717/3565e85b2fca9.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8600/2843/files/31830496732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7284/0090/files/85231834461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/big_al_s_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/15278085118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8361/1801/files/manogekalezovubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/express_entry_canada_points_calculator_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7699/1653/files/15821813861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/vipozisafuvewaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9401/6157/files/wejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8742/9781/files/sql_server_express_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4872/2851/files/zelogewif.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_off00004e23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E23 5180 bytes
SHA-256: fc65d90f26cc50ca275bb16bd655b7312d16f378c9be75d948e0e02fa9e0d8fe
font_01_sfnt_off00005fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAC 9928 bytes
SHA-256: 59cd557a8137d6612d9c8f98c3fd7ac675576d8ccaf40c3d771fa67f82e0d1a5