Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6799dc9ab8940aea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e3e0d33ceb5adf00a791e50129f2d261 SHA-1: a0f1a7df4efcc573996fddd2e97603ba1c820d86 SHA-256: 6799dc9ab8940aeaa2f29b793824d1c710d0ccbcb507613fdd4ee925a31991ee
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=best+mage+leveling+spec+1-+110'. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests an attempt to create a link farm or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier 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.cc/pify?keyword=best+mage+leveling+spec+1-+110 In PDF document text
    • http://files.spiritofgoldenjoinery.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069819/3613563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hrr-poa.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637570/6f4e24644c3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.santachester.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607053/sagop.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/1/0429/6287/8618/files/11416990884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6309/6984/files/surubibexubemubejegumige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1643/8438/files/22517889825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87294954422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5788/0996/files/79980795718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/sazetezenowezunidutavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0409/0777/files/86371036390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1394/7048/files/rajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3196/0469/files/66837020189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2567/0042/files/xisevulipe.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_off0000def0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF0 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 6019b4e93a584f6ce79e08b785dafdf5844a3e05d5af9d7674a974f5f0647426
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A0 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2D 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 579c7b595c3f30a35dd4337153ad8f5cb8dc2bbddfd6182988024fbe7f9d36bc