Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 714a87160e781ec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:14:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d16d80076d398733096437b13ca1807 SHA-1: 57c4d57c9c899e516d670b3e91ecb7f9d5bbe181 SHA-256: 714a87160e781ec488f5d909df493d35f1d1a41af657cacee83c41e8b1b231d2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to attract downloads. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used in conjunction with a 'free download' lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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=java+programming+bangla+book+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.shakesreview.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776312/2434715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bargeattitanic.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872015/6596266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mightymicrobuilt.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815008/nalelijefiduwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silvabuilt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775515/ruzesobiwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9619/5737/files/jovorurog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6673/7311/files/22963634507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3525/4171/files/84166354417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8658/3710/files/28838680524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9382/7485/files/33808586211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vitalifurefafimeribedewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4619/9711/files/army_builder_40k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4198/0567/files/82939385399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8272/5029/files/35479602600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3168/3484/files/konanonegalajoruteriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3683/5993/files/minecraft_death_screen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0978/5512/files/85224370088.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC042 5236 bytes
SHA-256: cbb96ebfdaed96024ee6a70ef0597d85e533b6b4e3d43cd8d624337893e042d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1FC 3948 bytes
SHA-256: 74154886c4beea006621f3582e26218d787b5fbc5bb8c0d41caa1a0db6152ec0
font_02_sfnt_off0000de3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3D 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 83c57b569975d900ff3ef6d7a7506801eb9027d38b1d29bbd906c09309ff1b37
font_03_sfnt_off0001130d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3