Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94ad7493a670bc7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2020-09-19 16:14:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 676b2543fa182fbd9ec758b023f94bf7 SHA-1: 672bcb2ae6c04cf665a4580e8162326248b504f3 SHA-256: 94ad7493a670bc7eb1622f11356e7eca92596d4b19a75924b4db723c72a133d5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of a large number of embedded links, characteristic of a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=the+case+of+a+self+contained+meaning', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body itself contains garbled text and metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather as a vehicle for distributing links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.link/wix?keyword=the+case+of+a+self+contained+meaning In PDF document text
    • http://files.realwalks.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303009/mazatopefikir-tarigikisafexo-guzipopuru-fodawulonekidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jessica-gordon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775728/gabanuzefen_gowudaguk_gedisomibafixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://fca02d60-5857-4fd9-b3a0-3b8c598cac2d.filesusr.com/ugd/851c7c_450e958498e44f43aef52837e1899b19.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1ec44e47-b545-4667-9151-f1e1be153ca6.filesusr.com/ugd/3a38e0_45b595f5ceaa4affbfcab147de8571ff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://addd23c8-f78c-41e1-ba4a-9308775559d8.filesusr.com/ugd/6924eb_355126730e18464b97b6f95338583647.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e7e723ad-c83c-45b2-ab45-e508eb6b8202.filesusr.com/ugd/d61b30_bd8c1ffd132a4c14ac860d60edca3397.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/5338/3581/files/duburimativiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6369/6805/files/gegipasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7309/3288/files/ielts_writing_task_2_sample_essays_band_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/6870/5954/files/95328206299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8369/4247/files/64531507783.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6646 5600 bytes
SHA-256: e4121a0bd4ccb5171277120a3afcfaf64f216ca48a0a3fa388cf33831b104223
font_01_sfnt_off00007a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A03 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 05b3e4a90f80a4ee2a54acb70b74e02e07db2e1a71092a781fe267eeb93545df
font_02_sfnt_off00008bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BDA 4028 bytes
SHA-256: f3888f27e06dd1cf107c215e198ac2c73510dede1568242d282c58e158fe8149
font_03_sfnt_off000099b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99B6 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 1b78247d75ccc0428a2b980db53120efe92e2fe4f77c19ccfe45b2a6bea7bfce
font_04_sfnt_off0000a9f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9F5 12460 bytes
SHA-256: 71c4f8cec0ffcc0d8caf4492722fb0c2075e7ff3ad3c1585f246cc8d692aa15a
font_05_sfnt_off0000d2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2F0 17200 bytes
SHA-256: afd6189cb7d5638f56d2f3b6bb2e92dbeba9ffcd345c9bd1040fbdd1ccc10ef9
font_06_sfnt_off0000ec1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1B 3564 bytes
SHA-256: a51bd093336b1113e5cf36ebbfb2e2ec4ded7d4f11a208f85620e4f0792c09e0