Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7b3e8f2309290f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 22:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 2170b15a20753f868c2cfc9477a2a17d SHA-1: 70ddfac18ce9d9b65895e3494de163e1ffe40b54 SHA-256: b7b3e8f2309290f88fbe6a2357fce733a7559f965f49206b3f531a3a25683eb9
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain. The heuristic 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into believing there are new or changed payment instructions, a common tactic in business email compromise attacks. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=double+entry+accounting+system+pdf, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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=double+entry+accounting+system+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thistallawkwardgirl.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813364/525983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hayseedcafe.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/0a12d946e5d313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hannahchambers.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637043/dibolerux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nhappyandbeautiful.store/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454373/4574184.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/1/0437/0667/9447/files/vatajeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4726/4166/files/5244483805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3803/1518/files/ivy_sherwood_porn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9743/8875/files/jubojururekupaxugewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6627/7531/files/21524218334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6740/0601/files/aha_acls_book_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3502/3770/files/puditebesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4782/2236/files/47967779320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3531/0752/files/google_calendar_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9635/7530/files/86308936142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5526/8519/files/dyson_dc14_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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6947 5716 bytes
SHA-256: 483917aaebdc65a93535409f4ee5eb9e2c8e341ad419a8dc27bd4aff2bbaca46
font_01_sfnt_off00007caf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CAF 10276 bytes
SHA-256: d02fea2301bc6b05d97d435306c2f8e87c7a8b5bd5cf215fa6e3285460d68679