Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb3006b912253dc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8ea00df658b15118512581f52893e71d SHA-1: 41fb75992571a852eff27c317bbef15064bdecbf SHA-256: eb3006b912253dc3a58012daf7890875c5f9952952f4fb3bfe6fa598f5565167
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, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=adobe+lightroom+tutorials+pdf+free+download', is designed to lure users into downloading content. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various files, some of which are hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL is the most critical IOC.

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.cc/pify?keyword=adobe+lightroom+tutorials+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://luvuzutos.petaupairs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874197/6002406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thefilamentstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/fakesijerisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.firstteam904.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384289/8fe16b0c.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/1/0435/4496/9365/files/personality_test_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2510/4028/files/dimazanalewapuxija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89089693040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5491/5993/files/jaraxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/19226327459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5845/2897/files/lyman_reloading_manual_50th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4277/4935/files/jenuxemivimopisoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7432/9499/files/elizabeth_bathory_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1864/7709/files/zufijifofirizetutubuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2505/5389/files/gironogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0118/3384/files/81954129427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1283/3959/files/ledegajezafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3195/1517/files/mckenzie_method_back_exercises.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_off0000718c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x718C 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 03f040c194227ab257224cda1013a7b983c600b93dacf536176a9e93c0193b2f
font_01_sfnt_off000084b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84B2 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 09df28cc54e3569e79ec3d3438f871315feb9f8d2caea0d09ab83467fe0b125f