Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffed5623cbfe278c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 14:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8128d53860eb2fd13dea83ead9def621 SHA-1: 671cb42edfc20910cf604fbf3b528389f2f6225d SHA-256: ffed5623cbfe278cbea99b31824c2f9c7e86587fadae30081d7b6053b2719dc1
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link presented as a 'Solidworks tutorial' download, which is a common social engineering lure. This link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely as part of a link farm to improve SEO for malicious content. The presence of a visual download button heuristic further supports the social engineering pretext.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=solidworks+tutorial+14+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.snakities.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814387/8130971.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/1/0432/1227/5876/files/fuwutajegokotirakowalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2443/files/54405976358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wudogezemolajefenupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0346/1283/files/asge_guidelines_antibiotic_prophylaxis_endoscopy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0760/4896/files/namulidokawobadanewivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3437/6352/files/apocrifos_del_antiguo_testamento_tomo_v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5612/files/namoxitozusanapemeveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/490585044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8158/0188/files/pibemuwifodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zeranosorijajigafa.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_off00004610.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4610 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 50e36c30af9ebd6416516e02e3e183e213c9c2988aea4f98691d85b4434927e6
font_01_sfnt_off000058b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58B8 9700 bytes
SHA-256: d590d46ec1bf28316c5eba348d513f5b00c7a222b7aef936f34b03e6e081c052

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