Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ef95e0b7c84468e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-27 19:02:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 00836375e56b2d130be0629d8b3cf649 SHA-1: 6ff6f8058bf7cd7f919176d5c828c2146cd6a01c SHA-256: 2ef95e0b7c84468eb943305ed2a7c2e06c7bc476f34674798c4481100c91395c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and references to 'John deere tractor canopy', suggesting a lure to attract clicks. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure via a link farm.

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=john+deere+tractor+canopy In PDF document text
    • http://xugokeb.brianebaugh.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636908/folip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.turtlebeachpc08.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710491/8583117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tortoise.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452976/felimulunoxu-ramejeni.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/1/0432/8803/5486/files/zapudiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4843/5861/files/zukisosonikakajivunigafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4028/5607/files/remisagegoxugidemube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5013/1878/files/49144628362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5690/5885/files/zemujiwutifizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4267/files/inferior_alveolar_nerve_block_technique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8262/9798/files/dasar_dasar_akuntansi_jilid_1_al._haryono_jusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6626/0642/files/lufonabudibidazapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5363/8044/files/95609343721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9263/0947/files/aqa_a_level_biology_specification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6207/4261/files/6868139500.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000712a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x712A 5040 bytes
SHA-256: e5127f8f9d8aaee15410d4f94d6eb3e5224ade6457aa24e21f83738b5e396d97
font_01_sfnt_off00008248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8248 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 0641489302a210eba929ef49eb1bcf8a8cdbfb774164675a31ac1d8630a08851

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