Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8d46fffb5b95a1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 17d5bc1b635966a68e37c162f085cb2e SHA-1: c2e48bff8c2428044be6c13456ea707e4f6ede59 SHA-256: e8d46fffb5b95a1e7fd914f40c798c316b73593810e85dc148f6f70822b8b795
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm of numerous PDF documents hosted on Shopify, likely intended to manipulate search engine results or lure victims. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=gear+patrol+gift+guide+2018', redirects to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the gift guide title and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates a phishing or redirection attack.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=gear+patrol+gift+guide+2018 In PDF document text
    • http://majarej.ioscaid.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874001/tajokodujase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.khamby.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379042/kuzipad.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/3183641906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9375/2997/files/niwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7351/9269/files/matufalidalokilezelozanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1412/6759/files/jazimetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6241/7825/files/38869623629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tujekozovazufurujujazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8122/6657/files/buku_pintar_agama_islam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4496/9367/files/band_gap_of_germanium.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5407/5799/files/raleway_semibold_font_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0854/0324/files/48504347308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9324/5590/files/badunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5671/6183/files/lesutokanises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7727/8627/files/zutixilagabefo.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6815 5580 bytes
SHA-256: f1b09e19dc32179565e845a3f91659cc2df0de0717f7d822991e4ab9f29145f8
font_01_sfnt_off00007b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B27 10996 bytes
SHA-256: f052d70941a98cb0294e21162c624e90a0249c0b15f64f8f1590aab610d66351

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