Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6b7ac9f55cb528a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 06:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cc600311c7643a4793c33849d719971e SHA-1: 6e7341271637cdc2b67f19881a5287d9e8b9c804 SHA-256: e6b7ac9f55cb528add03040fbed533265eed6be5298404297f891a5cc6289b69
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Another critical heuristic flags the PDF for containing a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into clicking through to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=divisibility+rules+foldable+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.ekleonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969265/79e8bf25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buwokux.ryanwesleygilreath.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607310/454bd65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annabananaonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775979/5085359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosannavanmierlo.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969974/394c995073d.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/1/0430/9866/9220/files/fexurixufozefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9922/6279/files/aap_se_mausiiquii_hd_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8565/1358/files/60004803277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8339/9329/files/30864582439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9182/0711/files/recognition_certificate_templates_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8841/2836/files/ligazipenerovorilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/8125041837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7431/3621/files/bleeding_disorders_in_neonates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2717/7380/files/putawipuwifipevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/59709079581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/2019_tamil_new_movie_free_tamilrockers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0083/7782/files/83806441924.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_off000053fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53FB 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 393fa0939cffb6618909d2e3d0854ee62db7220fa543b4fe50d020bc6129ed20
font_01_sfnt_off00006692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6692 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 0bb052dc8f199c626e6c63697caba44f7493b93a967f945d351aa98a5cbea40f