Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e06fcbc9738cb5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-27 21:37:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6e3389ec57db38d2fce83c08dd5127f SHA-1: 21dc387838c283fdfd89c36cf33b823d96f97c91 SHA-256: 7e06fcbc9738cb5c414e287e52b246f44d8a360025f52ffa7ec376413c171c8b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.cc) that is flagged as malicious. The document body itself contains the same lure text as the redirector URL, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a large number of external links, including to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=cultural+respect+framework+australia In PDF document text
    • http://files.jeffreyholton.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437275/1cae2c859fe86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifox.sallyant.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739873/3791855.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/1/0430/7720/6178/files/kafasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9733/3668/files/limologitomavezutagari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1265/2194/files/minecraft_lucky_block_race_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5399/8487/files/velinobefofazopizerozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0472/3179/5365/files/alugueres_de_casa_do_esqui_stowe_ver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6490/1270/files/minecraft._net_server_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6885/8280/files/34866175307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/rafari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8376/7713/files/rca_voyager_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52665001447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9815/files/rotepevoropalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xidab.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_off00004809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4809 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 1e74ee359eb039f1c53666850f13a93134bc43681d32f78eac5a7706b37b65bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000598e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x598E 9900 bytes
SHA-256: 40e8c58fb3eb13ba1db00c263af2dd1b93829e9d70ae819e019d3455adc89535
font_02_sfnt_off00007b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B5B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e