Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e790ce77c88f93a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 19:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4305395a52724d9c7faffac19d8ebeaa SHA-1: 39730e5f506b31cbbf8549d0dbd7823dc82e74bd SHA-256: e790ce77c88f93a05e5340ebd22dc0a597c1ed340dba37142051cb315624a88b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=goodword+english+arabic+dictionary+pdf. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a dictionary and the wkhtmltopdf tool, reinforcing the lure. The presence of many links to Shopify domains, while individually benign, contributes to a link farm tactic. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=goodword+english+arabic+dictionary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.letsgetlegalnz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775866/b4ebe2e268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arkansaspastelsociety.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411474/4272817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spiritfireshaman.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741382/lotizakisubanas-xutov-tijonopimubepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ladyteeth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406811/labewexudejosiwuki.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/1/0432/7027/5237/files/senizinidakuxivopoviwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8658/5749/files/xowukevedumuparitadubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2452/files/tamutenarupapirotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4496/9367/files/numulogufisupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5938/8320/files/nikuxegepefumofodegabotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6473/7448/files/minecraft_wirkds_fikder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1493/0084/files/35668889611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9509/5451/files/88038688312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4265/1816/files/nefaladus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4868/0089/files/brownian_motion_physics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1116/8664/files/2969701490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73881495537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/zaxazageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8333/9678/files/stock_market_basics_in_telugu.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_off000053af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53AF 5780 bytes
SHA-256: 268f8e4734757adf11256ab31b9d66f8d8aa298812a9a229440826db23ff4d63
font_01_sfnt_off00006772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6772 9812 bytes
SHA-256: 6b2d82f9e4c8a46057b4fd704783b50b640464c514415df9773502ae7bf85252