Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ece0998df709206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 03:45:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 42e94e0964fa56ea8f73de96fc712939 SHA-1: b0dca71b28aa1af6720bb5dfc04532638771b4b3 SHA-256: 1ece0998df70920649c63348e90c190de6aebf93e9a6e1289f90ead068772156
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=catalogue+ikea+1993+pdf'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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.cc/pify?keyword=catalogue+ikea+1993+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veburugez.999fmradiomanila.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/03484d7039e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.radpanovphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606248/cc0fc3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bombersouth.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/kelanolovojasiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obsmanual.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637853/1a23fc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gaiacrystals.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968921/savemuzekalikog_susojewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/40878889042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/tituxoviteremufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6576/8096/files/zexuwasigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5806/9655/files/52866702703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/14423772609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8544/7833/files/51632868115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8662/4406/files/36184519547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0625/2440/files/mumitaverebititinaboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7641/8720/files/financial_statement_analysis_valuation_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7002/1014/files/tofebemukusitevesiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8804/4442/files/watepodujapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8239/1451/files/62641020057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0256/8599/files/78064082828.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6552 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 98bb1490c348b341fc552307e3aa0bbdfe19dc68d046138dcd5e51020ca6e03e
font_01_sfnt_off0000770d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x770D 10792 bytes
SHA-256: b596108984258a804f4e3f16cddebe7e916c1268336edbc2291395db48d9eccd
font_02_sfnt_off00009b92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B92 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2