Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 465ee6a96ced4ba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 09:29:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a8f960bfe9cecc7a194429cc81815a07 SHA-1: 786c82c3bc1247068417f7a0af810aa1a5216719 SHA-256: 465ee6a96ced4ba6f24598dbb31987b6db9129fb0c050fb281d36873e9aeca62
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 text 'Karcher k7 manual' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wb?keyword=karcher%20k7%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.acuityworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379748/6c253247d5ed.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/1/0436/2603/7411/files/prolactinoma_in_pregnancy_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/twitch_minecraft_increase_ram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6546/5249/files/41918724393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gefoviliruvowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8640/4000/files/55550462898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4517/5971/files/shroud_csgo_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97242885008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/xuzalawajaruxajufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1219/4463/files/96294551088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovovowegafakaroseras.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_off00005794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5794 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 8b9018dd0c48ca7a6b439c4ea39122dc439c0467942130fd47511f69ad96216c
font_01_sfnt_off0000685c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x685C 13812 bytes
SHA-256: fce4f09fd0407d967a79117513c6eb7b278036c648ee6430247b9f4d3bc7865c

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