Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0f07e9442e09ee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.1 KB Created: 2020-08-16 16:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6eff5f07b78093bb0d8b0f7e693e6d6 SHA-1: e2c26a33f94ca9bb0dbc66937767f45d82cf338e SHA-256: e0f07e9442e09ee958fe8274d519b991aa258ca8d9e4fa5bce77b94f11ca54e7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'warrior tank leveling guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of many external links, including a large number pointing to shopify.com, indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

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/pify?keyword=warrior+tank+leveling+guide+classic+wow In PDF document text
    • http://files.bizraeli-anglo.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740580/1364071ac8cd93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.farnhamfringefestival.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871992/fawaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sesufowo.davidreeb.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070161/tuduguvitipen_sijol.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/1/0432/8144/9124/files/6649113108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1564/3042/files/10480621799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/vce_exam_simulator_free_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61066914906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7656/7711/files/likutojuguvozupegavome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4151/3894/files/gumuviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7404/4579/files/duwitufimegirofajorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4091/3061/files/accountancy_class_12_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1247/0422/files/ralexanewidumafijituzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2331/9715/files/41747972435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0273/9363/files/free_shopify_booster_theme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0123/3053/files/90990987016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8564/3419/files/tanigejenotolib.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_off0000a2d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2D6 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 5254daca764e24dad0cb3c8904faeeb40ae111f800162379e42c9e3ac947b69b
font_01_sfnt_off0000b527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB527 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 2dde087f857d3de22757283d1906859eb95e1dd38c569d8fb1adae1cdfc6bf4b