Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16455063c950f116…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 14:29:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a19c4a9cb5e7ce31a9e4de4a5fcc70b9 SHA-1: 988ffa79819084579248a53a131ea0ca2de97cdc SHA-256: 16455063c950f116c78bb980574f413358e2ace3db6ef96a4199c5827c5bf865
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve SEO. One prominent link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ssh+net+example, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this redirector and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a lure to download further content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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.cc/pify?keyword=ssh+net+example In PDF document text
    • http://files.budavet.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636678/jixufirin-vatejiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.papamadeitwoodworking.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740536/ridelesamomipebised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.merarifernandez.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407165/6839308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.helpbuildit.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409498/tawufufikowa_vevojuvijogej_kefepuj_silorixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.conejoroyals.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606697/setatidivumoraj.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/1/0429/0379/7913/files/kefaneker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2732/5343/files/18105564263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2079/6583/files/pisemakaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7946/7162/files/array_length_javascript.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8289/8840/files/raduvij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4549/4684/files/85324991814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5714/3205/files/47123153325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13164506765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6322/9078/files/31204911959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5202/2430/files/laxefugenojepitugapawu.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_off000065c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C9 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 4d3e9a364f5fac568dd40967f9a7e0a22e814389d8ff43bdee2a77a53a3743b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000771c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x771C 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 400d0410c8be84c76e25d9ef7dc4a6a3d812e239b1413e831f18bf780aa82301