Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f939b8e910f8bc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 22:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9031b1cc1adf9163c4d24af4016fd1b4 SHA-1: a445a194a12c6b4ad00d58c99f1ba75e140c0e79 SHA-256: 9f939b8e910f8bc613f31d458f2a22e6a6cd2cb32b0456921c94782ba9312cc5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This indicates a link farm strategy designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create SEO-optimized content for malicious purposes.

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=examen+de+las+28+creencias+adventistas+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ayrtherapyandconsultancy.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070152/9887914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukufen.melissaavitale.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437535/0bac30e3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shsbballtipoffclub.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695633/5031965.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19836568605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0280/5921/files/kuvizuzugazuxibatawagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1325/0972/files/abelian_group_solved_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7620/5209/files/acta_constitutiva_de_una_empresa_real.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1088/2727/files/kexesamerosewusipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0671/4268/files/watogipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8482/3205/files/wulejiduwokoligodofaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4416/6037/files/disezusofebipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8052/4710/files/92107667347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5820/0730/files/wupilovodefuxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9582/6336/files/vozubowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8393/7432/files/abuelita_de_batman_guion.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_off0000a173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA173 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 0135a96e4eb182384ea8d4f7344229ec9018717601dc779ec1d3e27e6eeeb2a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000b4da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4DA 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 866fd8f3aa3aae7e676f1d29f03dad301d26cf56ef5bec22528edc648e0be04f

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