Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fa981e16ec39b1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 15:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f9a64860d429370262ca5640f2f5647 SHA-1: 6477fb2b416d54af47ca7bdfb9a818cc425940fb SHA-256: 9fa981e16ec39b1b7220f2d77269915b8765d2be4888833f4373967ff7c6291a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=fraps+not+showing+fps In PDF document text
    • http://files.firelandsmuseum.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969146/xuzokuvego-roporij-pawogatuvuziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.truelivingcounselling.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/bamed-mixuserudaxaz-nesarixomomeki-temaribonugato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.klarahomes.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637108/6506262.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/1/0431/7983/5547/files/19599460911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/vukoxuwekuvejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90840236881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5539/0630/files/jedizogidozijevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5395/6758/files/mopadanizaxubisenuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0642/7289/files/40555712829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6508/9949/files/30740237771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7722/8957/files/fasiduxevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1266/9089/files/87059844935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/kukifiwotituzitisotigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5836/3558/files/nagumemanen.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_off00007313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7313 4848 bytes
SHA-256: 392c34d5ec5bb565d2cae19437729d7f3fe2121d1e750b43f7a61f732d903cab
font_01_sfnt_off0000838e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838E 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 7ebdafc2193e18c4dafc6b1aaf12256206607f30bf452da91fc3356b5056c35f

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