Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ef6fee6f82c2cac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 366d1b189a9b907c1835e47ce0474c4b SHA-1: 8c667e0f11a29d05b9e8166d41b25c3247205915 SHA-256: 0ef6fee6f82c2caccccaf6a3698b5088999226b6f6053c5f4c44319de4e48583
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'recipe page template pdf'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates an attempt to create a link farm for SEO purposes, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=recipe+page+template+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.atelierap.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164081/f8e12a99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujari.millsandcockburn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437044/8623510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rachelmambach.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813325/mebogafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gozofa.theyallaproject.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/4897094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theboastfulhost.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856479/tigogug.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/1/0436/1191/4403/files/amilcar_cabral_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1061/1605/files/wurex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9596/4328/files/58773433925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4537/1549/files/circumference_of_a_circle_word_problems_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8734/0454/files/57815032271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9521/2697/files/template_id_card_portrait_cdr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5997/9174/files/bekelizexaniromimojejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4527/3251/files/python_plot_histogram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9180/1752/files/grammar_exercises_for_adults.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5067/2026/files/mipekavetezadaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0805/files/tank_calibration_procedure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/8021/4678/files/free_download_splitter_and_joiner_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4918/7493/files/wowov.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_off00007cb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB5 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 87295d206c21ce172452dd13b611db5c412941ac3e29990395cf540e3a12aa01
font_01_sfnt_off00008e65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E65 10596 bytes
SHA-256: f2a8d0fe77cca2553fe5aff0247ffd0098b429259aeff8b4bc6953ab26bc1fdb