Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb9cff38cdf4c6b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:42:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 581099e39f2982feaea59a0909988ed9 SHA-1: ac1be6de2fbd64543553c159bf2fc9315b5ddc6c SHA-256: eb9cff38cdf4c6b5b6def87d66e3dd555afe22dce4e3d5114bd590474d48bfb1
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using the 'top linen bed sheets' keyword to attract clicks. The PDF structure and embedded links indicate a link farm or redirection strategy to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload delivery.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=top+linen+bed+sheets In PDF document text
    • http://suzek.rosabransonandtheworlingtonmovement.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695306/fiwipezotepewireraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sculpturebylebowitz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406684/gunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scjmg.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775245/9b42150f6fa4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.anviltraining.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438563/b447d67f1580.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/1/0428/8145/0151/files/4110660028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4673/1930/files/70697925638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7633/files/free_responsive_email_template_bootstrap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/2494/8888/files/link_adobe_audition_3._0_full_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0729/5140/files/assembly_drawing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1496/3868/files/al_ghazali_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6430/3522/files/rorasadejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6327/1833/files/heart_failure_preserved_ejection_fraction_treatment_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6274/7545/files/kugepewekeliwimetulogodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6126/3001/files/jailbreak_ios_5._1_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8009/6667/files/daily_devotions_for_teachers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/8637/3025/files/answers_to_close_up_pics_level_22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8814/9668/files/17247672308.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_off00006a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A02 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3759605f8738039b93d947b9e3b83973eb0a38ebe860223cb8d969d9deb6d6
font_01_sfnt_off00007a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A60 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 5e20a8af804b3e0365a49a86cedfc516c37af3a7aa21d65effb478eda0079c60