Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d13f514e4063b113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-16 02:11:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8dbbd1f539341bbc96c7418b9feb1f73 SHA-1: aa1cbfa1b46ac391cedae2adbfe12a7db9b7bf34 SHA-256: d13f514e4063b11311c35537b448e63cb3de7ae5654024ccbbce0456e27cac80
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Bowman heat exchanger manual' and metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves tricking users into clicking on these links, leading them to malicious infrastructure.

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/wb?keyword=bowman%20heat%20exchanger%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.htdesigntech.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776250/814716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.startupinfluencer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/0dfbc16c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legiril.alitheajosaphine.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681337/jupunadoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jeffallensportstalk.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302848/6020171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8162/1919/files/44205735340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5111/3883/files/inside_al_qaeda_and_the_taliban_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5004/1495/files/xupizuvulagojanonazutowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4439/7468/files/3192442920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/sound_of_silence_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3590/7480/files/9450195114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5806/9655/files/fozivolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3227/9190/files/george_washington_biography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8991/1194/files/papegilefesajatuburidopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8901/7497/files/33868715988.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4665 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 06002b8b1f9c887b8a31842b032a81b9ef701737e418a8656674bc5cc7b4abb4
font_01_sfnt_off00005785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5785 9688 bytes
SHA-256: 1193a3971683573f4b5092075ec23e4f205cdbc2706bd9b1a2cd0847c4ee0fbd
font_02_sfnt_off000078bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78BF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361