Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77304dad913d45c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 09:22:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 058e169f218716c11749d0912527376a SHA-1: b3227739a14ac03c3477c45c2edc210cc75f31d5 SHA-256: 77304dad913d45c74b1e20ce86fc1cb67db4013bcca7cf78bf21701c868f8e52
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links to external PDF files, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm. The primary link directs to a redirector service, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector URL used for phishing lures supports a malicious intent.

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=car+accident+report+form+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.templeenterprises.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775032/7543370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richardhore.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407080/pexujo-jejajapi-vefimujosifir-sefemadetifofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allimagesonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739628/90f48ec.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/1/0433/1021/9422/files/majobenaluxuguzuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8221/1733/files/witivebofudesagukitewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/pamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9443/4207/files/33680055115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5851/1510/files/kolitis_ulseratif_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8672/5795/files/95406364568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/google_dork_website_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6823/5682/files/35472883471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1311/8872/files/palgrave_study_skills_critical_thinking.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9345/0134/files/24423965061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6442/5622/files/kajad.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_off00006638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6638 4996 bytes
SHA-256: 2866304dcf1654882121fdedd7c3008fa006390173ebfb0a96c75f3cb9880450
font_01_sfnt_off00007722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7722 9732 bytes
SHA-256: a5aa5ca955f1474acff602e5b0666de9eabd5227316089f08745dbdcef195a52