Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ed1e0ff02cfea56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 00:19:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8642cf7edeed5a8b3ac95ebfb45db9c8 SHA-1: 7d93577a8ca2e04f757289558be5676ec39c6b03 SHA-256: 7ed1e0ff02cfea569ada1f9f7a6709e0bcb42bc92f07f9cc927c253b244997fe
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to a 'carbon tax' to trick users into clicking through to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=bloc+quebecois+platform+carbon+tax In PDF document text
    • http://files.piedmontgreencbd.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070560/lebuvuvoxe_ruwafifuluwej_zalizutezal_gisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.strenthbasedteambuilding.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814387/6489208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pjswinkwriter.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071067/9813812.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/1/0433/8316/0983/files/agathiyam_book_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8570/8968/files/84091310398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8864/files/kesegemawoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7731/1395/files/rachmaninoff_concerto_2_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4373/2126/files/6516915596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6935/5670/files/pytorch_tensor_to_numpy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7418/1537/files/77558297972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6539/3820/files/22035621090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5313/8591/files/41131279233.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_off0000910f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x910F 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 8a165f154cfa7a15d931dff9b8589781618e09a20c1408005bffac0ec76ab1cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000a3d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3D6 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab4d15a957d389b1bb7acada5ddc5a9c28f464194e7bf516e83729ae351670c

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