Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d66a00893b262190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 87ebae89102d154bc2124aab646764c9 SHA-1: b2939ffe6e433e7ddbe7462c26791cdd987d85fe SHA-256: d66a00893b2621907b31c20dcbe166566e07722eb758481756bc5749741666f2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which are SEO-optimized slugs pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious URL (https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=problem+solving+pdf+download). This indicates a social engineering attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for further exploitation or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=problem+solving+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.vonleaderrottweilers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381612/zivawo-womegufubukavi-sewezogozuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dovipi.dandelionsanddaisiesfiberarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871390/komeviwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ny6thinktank.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437862/rufafanodedajifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wmgamebirds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453907/1615128.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/1/0433/8899/3699/files/bakuriguzexavop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lipowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4405/2885/files/manodomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9755/4084/files/jopasurenesovirisiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1057/7816/files/lanivalofabejixanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mefiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2511/2993/files/99212265260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1465/8980/files/all_of_me_piano_sheet_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1716/files/moboziranivegeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1764/7766/files/19630776954.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_off00007023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7023 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 458f8ffd03f78568d45c1c5d9c56ae18f76c86463b400a09ee55a0ce48b224b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000835b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x835B 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 366ad24d9303bd186ef8c8f07b75f5adf21877b0f0b5e196593573864dc465ec