Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e5688a1c0fbdda5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:01:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 393fab98a21343c2baf99daa5551494b SHA-1: 65ae37ee4d4eb6c93de34c5c780cd75ac0c5fb0f SHA-256: 7e5688a1c0fbdda527aa484ab96d0fc94345927091af37fd7bd1cdd92134fe79
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of this link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a large number of external links, including to Shopify, indicates an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute 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=resistance+band+exercises+for+legs+and+glutes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.commongroundcommunitycenter.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775951/e02bbaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kennethdeheve.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775299/79d77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thewardroom.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070911/c7d0c8f3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.acemexam.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483083/radizafomijuwu-vifoxurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heartofillinoisorff.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/9586210.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/1/0434/1547/0245/files/nowuponereruvezul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2582/3904/files/igcse_article_writing_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7581/4047/files/45768067195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6034/7551/files/importance_of_learning_by_doing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8611/0110/files/jadewugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9831/6707/files/kekuvutokiloleximadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0098/6787/files/administracion_de_empresas_turisticas_nuevas_estrategias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7729/5516/files/playboy_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9067/3813/files/48667590238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1077/6473/files/46095236947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/46728995902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/32584943195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7646/0445/files/xelutuxiweromifovimiju.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_off000065d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65D5 5536 bytes
SHA-256: df4bd53c268c285d61b0a3b2fd1eab4958e51de85df6cc7f0343e8f822e0cb24
font_01_sfnt_off000078bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78BC 9848 bytes
SHA-256: 45e03116edacb59d539fafa9b4d536d1f85404c307a03c40880b03e3b378ae87

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