Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e722300bd9171f1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 12:39:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0a85dee8341d3cfec43cca38573dbcd2 SHA-1: 3fd14ee8cb9ada6a4d11e097c40ae20e79955a5b SHA-256: e722300bd9171f1d707790e57bf721d40d7b90755d475619b93c2a637573330a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.com`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same text as the malicious URL's keyword parameter, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, indicates a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic and potentially distribute further malicious content.

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=full+form+of+atmosphere In PDF document text
    • http://files.yogabythestars.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776594/8729879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clairefreeman.me/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380345/99828513bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freedomk9s.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303019/5331597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1746/0120/files/guzazuluxulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pifafesilepobusofamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/5866669006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/jozatamumalipirekunanuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8669/9925/files/equilid_50_mg_bula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3706/5370/files/string_theory_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3942/2626/files/souncloud_to_mp3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/2998/files/alan_gratz_allies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/28629101745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3646/5559/files/16248953382.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E00 6776 bytes
SHA-256: 9f7f16bad19b525a0673417cc88de8a15059b4d81d97d1bad997a5be6ce27ce1
font_01_sfnt_off000084ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84EF 5096 bytes
SHA-256: f2451e32e50d781d1f4fdaa5fafbb4f1980344eea59b8aba664c8bbedd2d757b
font_02_sfnt_off00009617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9617 7212 bytes
SHA-256: 26c2c7b760f61a7123796f95b0fa49b992e5efd1980035778e8a0a74780e4d25
font_03_sfnt_off0000a9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9A5 12148 bytes
SHA-256: 076167f814cc1e32241352e97185a92dfcf2b4eed1308fe5fac37a305f108b6a