Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1ee87b912f67e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-07-29 20:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8fdb4cb30900749a28928babb4249167 SHA-1: f4224b8e3408b85434a2d1c02df5311a17420099 SHA-256: ad1ee87b912f67e11fb965cd340afef9c3f24f42dbd10d5eb61f8a0a058c372c
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, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=detail+inspiration+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf' is noted, but does not directly indicate a specific malware family.

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=detail+inspiration+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.manpatools.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406659/tiwexusomeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lockdowndoorshades.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437832/gewuzemuxup_fajokexog_duwoj_wovuxuxixilejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ifixcny.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381109/2492376.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/1/0428/5438/3782/files/fowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1868/1496/files/borobukojalodunaguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41732402988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2021/2645/files/33970533059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5975/7734/files/40469295576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7264/3491/files/wedawamalaparofurimilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57917948996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8219/4847/files/98690019654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7287/0807/files/72473224371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9026/4742/files/suzoxurazewodule.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_off00009ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FFB 4820 bytes
SHA-256: d5f6e1fd9cca4c8f600e44bb2789ba0bd0cf5cbf1f4161476b7e9a1f896d2bad
font_01_sfnt_off0000b066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB066 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 2416f88ee7f325561fc0dc8697a6880613335f2a73a29fb8b72fc5233649c07f

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