Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e2c617f6ef98c0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 445b495dc2a59fc619bd40c0325511ad SHA-1: d67efe8aab71f08f3565caf09ef3d3c92283676a SHA-256: 0e2c617f6ef98c0d0b2225e912b3ba7a77da293d667ce0b6e9348408fe993671
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) and then to other PDFs hosted on Shopify and other domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm or phishing campaign designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as 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=blackduck+lake+fishing+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.ellisonsherrillart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682542/dutedetubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trinityfarmnwf.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874475/kubulimo-gejovajivafuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vunumom.consecratedliving.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407241/3169694.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/1/0434/7507/5225/files/ford_555_backhoe_parts_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7301/9808/files/bevolorolimisakozodafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5317/9289/files/39653583922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8346/3832/files/zerebiwivorilulaxaxefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4228/3432/files/10856068189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0319/0181/files/mapipaxofadilipizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5312/9640/files/94972578200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8188/3047/files/cours_technique_d_analyse_biochimique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8768/4003/files/mubedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4002/8325/files/kaizen_event_charter_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/lirilarojot.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_off00006713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6713 5528 bytes
SHA-256: f5eab2ea4603c4be166f007db090165cc5c4702e2b06a51dcb13a1dae5e05405
font_01_sfnt_off000079ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CA 10664 bytes
SHA-256: ad19ccc4ab69a809e3a5ecdb103cd1a4ea3dc381fe62e7aa8a9d9d5fecc6be63