Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ce13f142307b5c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6913475beac7c74632494b2b57e0be8b SHA-1: 8dd878a524cfc5df2e6073a1aa13c4cb2ebbdcc6 SHA-256: 9ce13f142307b5c0299906142bd4525a4b060308d32825cfc5c4ed4790951e7f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body contains garbled text but includes the target URL and a reference to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated programmatically.

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/wix?keyword=sims.mobile-cheats.net+advogado+de+g In 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/1/0440/5297/1685/files/buchholz_relay_location_in_transformer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8066/3705/files/21441999639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0562/3972/files/5033879242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/82901490282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c808b6b09c1e45648afa93b61cb4a8ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_998411814ec64aaebe7d43d8cffef0bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0789d5_dd72136facb64706bf8ffe89d6248c27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b33c5_75a0d62c8db74964b4b8e859850b45b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5a1982fb2060447ea57e8967a4ff6869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ef7b09_295d554ed08c4f548f9877943dc73420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9757e7_498ead9546994715865bd26eed9c56fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_96d9177770fe431aadc31bbdf0304b19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9755/4084/files/feguwerepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7214/files/21390908721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1756/0473/files/64573081074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3237/1622/files/rubitidigukidufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1142/3902/files/craftsman_yt_4000_parts_manual.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_off000063cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63CD 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 9f3acb993455c8e7ab090b066f735f8f3df0a9c40e3cf02d7287a95388de91a8
font_01_sfnt_off000076da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76DA 10988 bytes
SHA-256: fbe8ce46295221b2c716a859fe26efb55028c7f97b49d6b927ab59fa0adc93c2
font_02_sfnt_off00009b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B69 16428 bytes
SHA-256: 4de993fdf65467371df45ae604b44199a0f9db96dd1987693d1d6f13b22e4334