Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 362ae6204fac64df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 00:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 91e36e9f2ff98fce012dcaa1d88320fc SHA-1: 07867c756b7ddd4a44f87df7c6f21cb7e267134b SHA-256: 362ae6204fac64dff6192360ce760e35cc6591a31ecf6059eecea20e631e40bd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with the primary heuristic identifying it as a PDF SEO link farm. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=que+es+el+hedonismo+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated programmatically. The overall purpose appears to be to manipulate search engine results through a large number of outbound links, with at least one link leading to malicious infrastructure.

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=que+es+el+hedonismo+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.theblackbasslodge.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738850/memimazukejowosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wazany.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606875/gulibo_mogoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flareperformance.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740845/kusamekavedusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christinestow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775228/c94e79700428b21.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/1/0429/8624/2209/files/tujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4157/9420/files/bijaxawitesubiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7365/9292/files/anemia_por_deficiencia_de_vitamina_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3106/files/10970108534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/nisuwejesujavekizejelela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6464/7077/files/budgeting_profit_planning_and_control_welsch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9757/0980/files/velisono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7542/0835/files/sadikenirefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8698/6908/files/pesoneruwiwariwati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2865/9874/files/clicker_heroes_ancients.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3420/4568/files/ashrae_189._1_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6612/2662/files/15330494151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7039/8362/files/vupufeguvarowogirunoz.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_off0000779c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x779C 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 646ceb916b17927e7a6130493631188ea31a4399a42e1e6f761520475f3fc9fc
font_01_sfnt_off00008893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8893 11928 bytes
SHA-256: 94c48a9406cdb17cb487a33d92911ea176f74f0f9a96ecf895078428efa189bd