Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94eda74f6ca0934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 14:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1aabf835fa0a1d83dec3e88fe3a344a0 SHA-1: f7a510e371c8f9482e3042ac933d7e99797c2784 SHA-256: e94eda74f6ca0934d448875e1304627e2678dd5e9c27fb0ecd7c2aedd5f637ac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=break+from+toronto'. Additionally, it features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDF files, reinforcing the redirection and link farm findings.

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=break+from+toronto In PDF document text
    • http://files.hornehastingsgourmet.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637695/ca8a3566282ae0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eventinspire.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637273/delita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.melrockworld.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969474/4697716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6332/9446/files/takosogisafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4830/4797/files/zilisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5306/2043/files/zetusote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2883/0632/files/duxaxerepabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2163/0631/files/fidemoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2023/8503/files/90322002766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/xipirexizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8434/8569/files/xigufefepobakusorijusemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5395/4710/files/revopenobutomakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0727/0297/files/30978808540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4855/9004/files/12451692107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4872/2851/files/59428678613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lovukapovilelogitolosir.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6910 4556 bytes
SHA-256: 98f09df94df04f644b8938f69f01d0b75a9e5ec7f741bebab7203fc490cc57f5
font_01_sfnt_off00007868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7868 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 5d4dd04a0c62d4bae0b2a8bd9fc895b0ca711665a9b9b79066639fd8e4ca655c
font_02_sfnt_off00009e7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E7A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e

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