Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7367bc74823c278…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-07-27 16:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 024912fc28179eaae15697fdd6c0430e SHA-1: 4cf3bee9267edaecfe0b83ffe4226233a7364399 SHA-256: e7367bc74823c278f0c3aea8577f62af93c70b833ac48fa4f1ac5b031b9c08c8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create SEO-optimized content for link farms. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=role+of+chloroform+in+plant+dna+extraction In PDF document text
    • http://files.pemmensgolf.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/febokibilodirina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nicholsbaptistchurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813645/semug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inspiring-tomorrows-leaders.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406780/243150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.embracerefugeebirth.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380612/donis-suzabumirotole.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/1/0433/5055/6821/files/fategoviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1255/files/25532051810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/votizepamesikegumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0937/5383/files/natoweborinesujaxofabasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/bivijagepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/gitiwavosekibavunokoforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2020/5726/files/57472715045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9137/8854/files/lavesobagezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/29870604779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7841/8583/files/safimubodujumapagitamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3656/files/56986539633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/81910786908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6880/8613/files/94100246320.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_off000080e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E3 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 02ca9a73d383f69de72a4c68584f71a3abd5936c90ee7e21275c99d127154db5
font_01_sfnt_off00009200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9200 10264 bytes
SHA-256: e4aace5fb72604593bb48df196fd6fa3cd8fdd6165d394ccbda9562b187d0990