Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6b335da7f2b3116…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:57:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e03bfd2c1468bbfffd9c477d57323c4 SHA-1: e056979dd04f880a1f6cc1bb4d0891aee8349faf SHA-256: d6b335da7f2b311695c94a1ec8f5d2a2aeffc97919cab54b139d9cc97c1c9429
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was generated by wkhtmltopdf and contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=carbon+dating+problems+pdf'. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains the same URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=carbon+dating+problems+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.patprofit.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775712/967025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fernfarmcottages.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437363/3148417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keweti.neelin.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070993/lakipokame.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/1/0438/3975/0294/files/41363437646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4186/6403/files/island_royale_script_2019_december.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0483/6515/files/biennale_cinema_programma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1550/4029/files/9815725034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4752/6305/files/the_river_gary_paulsen_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3120/5787/files/tawodopapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2992/files/nivebuzemasisaxasuxomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2401/5783/files/wonagobagaxofagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2281/0268/files/28386550696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8570/9987/files/67241201115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1280/8091/files/37470359343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5764/9566/files/vezorobiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7587/1654/files/naxuwibigo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008ca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CA1 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 7ff75df3d323bdbb66a266aa30e1e603f1cd9d4921df00811e6812397a5054bf
font_01_sfnt_off00009ede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EDE 9944 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3acbf836545d89407aa1b4e23e2310f4220b7cc4104a8c7e59940b62d93a6e
font_02_sfnt_off0000c106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC106 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 84d5bd19c210eb3b73ecc14096ab1e56fdfb5b80ce7ba4f0052c67c0c2b02727