Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e4a07e67ec29300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 29c142025d5212864c7fd2639bfcb926 SHA-1: 7cdb7f2ece7490aba0b7d839e962cbe8146a4ce6 SHA-256: 2e4a07e67ec29300a22f0c95b8d135599cbe3d6413322215dcfaf34dc6636bb8
202 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 point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=metahuman+by+deepak+chopra+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to direct users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of urgency lures further supports this malicious intent.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=metahuman+by+deepak+chopra+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pentictonadventurers.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681758/fenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tunisian-tile-stone.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775373/ketukutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johannesburgwildlifevet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/kanowolopapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.puzzle-pieces.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438059/9171715.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/1/0429/8457/1031/files/simcity_4_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5420/2018/files/43966148505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/95281131157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1092/3423/files/53572710144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4350/9656/files/rawezefudutiduwuvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5847/1846/files/gozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1786/1277/files/jimukolapafajejupudozeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5467/8687/files/nigegafikofegidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9147/7159/files/zigejesonulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/zasipodezuboroduwafelene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41557636134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/10542380718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3707/2280/files/jogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4046/4281/files/troy_bilt_lawn_mower_won_t_start.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_off00007ccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CCC 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 81d88c8f4407d2a89d3bacbc2d99c004dbc48b508b48f7bb8f03b16b38126c77
font_01_sfnt_off00008f65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F65 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4a17362b7de6a0627474916e9482939611092a0d78531ca4cb7ccd2a516930