Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f2878aca22f9d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:49:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5eb54c035f25c2d320a46e7048d0e7ea SHA-1: 47d445e99b719abc9191073c75017522bcff96e2 SHA-256: 78f2878aca22f9d84b8a0622163ef8fe068c1adbd7347712bd4081764b7682bb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains multiple links to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=creation+kit+skyrim`, which is flagged as malicious. The document also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs on Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=creation+kit+skyrim In PDF document text
    • http://files.foresitemapping.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437291/4ef8228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.10independenceblvd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776611/gipesezefinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smockadoo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681210/gokojuwukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schombergcommunityfarm.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380868/c3c31a37f78ec7.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/1/0434/8664/2338/files/xogukudalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7734/files/giwiduxamokotarejemopibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3667/files/linexexunamanuzelenisabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8333/9678/files/vaboxosisevemugebafeluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8875/4328/files/puwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8254/7361/files/vedifawaratuxamoxiduwiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0276/4184/files/kanexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5248/2208/files/d_d_5e_conditions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7269/files/33355738234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3311/6317/files/jawifagazamatovobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/solegirobaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4017/files/9804634466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6627/7531/files/23176284978.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_off0000729f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729F 4868 bytes
SHA-256: fb1b23dd9389100771d41e40796013b8883adfbdefbd330b059ca426533d95e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000831f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x831F 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 7f1ae55a6597d6f0409ccf7420ab6e45033735828ae1ac8d0dcf0a72249b786c

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