Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e20c6eb898876e03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 12:41:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01d9bc76e74f9b24af8a6e4b24a31213 SHA-1: 320314303a2ed10412ecbdd72a99559918ec0ca6 SHA-256: e20c6eb898876e03259ed792c554ddf76483baefeeed7edd2b67d13ae8e885ef
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 point to a redirector service. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=zelda+breath+of+the+wild+cookbook+pdf, is designed to trick users into downloading content by appearing to offer a popular PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other benign-looking Shopify links, likely to create a false sense of legitimacy. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=zelda+breath+of+the+wild+cookbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fusogive.escapelandscaping.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/furavolamibone_ropunute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawiva.zhaimen.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/5a95e37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rawusibuk.moodmetals.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738970/da14871556.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/1/0428/8207/2732/files/fitufuxisiwosuzebovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6346/0508/files/learn_ableton_live_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7578/9215/files/catecismo_menor_westminster.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4116/0344/files/free_business_plan_samples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4291/3955/files/80168236207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9741/5077/files/capital_of_countries_in_asia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1236/6241/files/burial_rites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2355/7030/files/98427243840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6559/0438/files/piano_man_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5165/6102/files/wejovezolelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0867/1394/files/xopapilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7826/2689/files/ponikivafidilamorugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9762/9596/files/popuvujurun.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_off00006f03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F03 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 0a873ccdbf20b213800f5dd18a6f726a8d31073b7104186688d799531b6bb275
font_01_sfnt_off00008123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8123 14424 bytes
SHA-256: b624f3cd8d7bda81a5fad2f8c387f64e655cb1a6fe10bb9f53df9b9f78b7f90f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE58 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 3f70697d8cfd0b9becff5adcad726f9ffedcc5d773cc6f7abbcc82b2f8034994