Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbd17e9b6405adc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 10:23:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d202e8e56f05d0555b86489b613be670 SHA-1: d1c2977a94a38114397ee32f1f8fe7048cc098c4 SHA-256: cbd17e9b6405adc20072bd0425f016c7b22c1f7dc8268531c8ba498c9aacec1e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of the primary redirector links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ark+survival+evolved+mobile+apk+aptoide', is flagged as malicious. The presence of a PHP webshell heuristic suggests the potential for server-side exploitation, although no direct script execution was observed within the PDF itself. The document body contains obfuscated text and URLs, further indicating a malicious intent to lure users to potentially harmful content.

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.
  • PHP webshell / backdoor source high WEBSHELL_PHP
    The file contains PHP server-side code with the signature of a webshell/backdoor (request input fed to a command/code-exec sink). A webshell takes attacker input from an HTTP request and runs commands/code on the server. Flagged as a malicious hacktool artifact even when carried inside a document or archive — the code does not execute from the carrier, but the file is a webshell.
  • 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=ark+survival+evolved+mobile+apk+aptoide In PDF document text
    • http://nefupumo.smile2340.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/pedede_rugolufeda_noxirivanusaf_tavika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vifizu.jonascain.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379866/pulezunikulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dufuloben.scarboroughukes.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874380/5085397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fosojaza.yasminevintage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452883/958762076bd29cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serepipe.jlgpublishing.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/4775040.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/1/0431/9058/3464/files/http_filesify._com_wr6jfm_password._txt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0013/8661/files/analytical_chemistry_principles_and_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5293/3019/files/85463632144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2917/6232/files/suxirixezaginebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9509/files/fun_brochures_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7246/3772/files/91961405792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7361/0663/files/67934260962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7079/0558/files/vizipinexajov.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006bd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BD4 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 7d5952af810e51fbd31e8bb692fd575986631034c1bce0f05d32f917c415ff61
font_01_sfnt_off00007deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DEB 2140 bytes
SHA-256: 49dddaa543544930169c80d10742cf71a10a90771d945bdf421e53748b1fa594
font_02_sfnt_off000087c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87C5 10096 bytes
SHA-256: 351ba029430e452297034e5803a1aad07b8a462efa429cd6b000d7aab1b067f6
font_03_sfnt_off0000aaa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAA7 16384 bytes
SHA-256: a8f82ce1cdc57d6cf73caeb35ba0a534b8f114798d4dfc5d6ed82df03316e49d