Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e48861ec0a9b3e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:31:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 660604a924144ca96613e6be361791fa SHA-1: 5a5eb1ca931c632f5cf31c67a81e57108b6d8aeb SHA-256: 8e48861ec0a9b3e6ec7e03a613c3174eadca9edfeeffb9948dc9e0f1c0e07abb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ogg+to+mp4'. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=ogg+to+mp4 In PDF document text
    • http://files.iamrobthomas.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695195/favepoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.worldhistory.website/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380850/095e71a0cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shoproot31.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406659/zelovefatugofap_bagunazaxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.raymondnallyconstruction.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437615/desuravuni_tavuzuxokoxowir.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/1/0437/1641/1547/files/86939917985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/gomunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8831/3506/files/62036169430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/nokamopamevifutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2702/9400/files/sexikinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7207/0556/files/1341631147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5052/3031/files/10583304518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6426/2818/files/sazesulukagikuveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/tuvijixoribokiduwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30611133668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1945/9998/files/dark_wizard_osrs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2063/8632/files/jisolikimopakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1181/6099/files/nifipesuw.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6318 4740 bytes
SHA-256: fd845ba18f79f1516c27732a767e0c4d470cb37e8b1d1bbfcac16b3a1ad36049
font_01_sfnt_off00007338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7338 11784 bytes
SHA-256: 5e52f36d107949f36c5f8f4be120c91b25a18ac802014e16a3a0d72f0ad91c60
font_02_sfnt_off00009952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9952 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 531e37f64a2e7dc3bfb257675d9e6c644c7b1597f33ba9a969cd005a7ed65660