Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed0784bfc2e324d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 48eddec1a0fedca7872b6ffa796b1ee6 SHA-1: 8e0883f83618b4ff4e7c46c54a2d5c2d8ac1b6d0 SHA-256: ed0784bfc2e324d802e70d1f52af367bdc135e327098267fd17b23856c443492
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=god+will+answer+quotes'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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=god+will+answer+quotes In PDF document text
    • http://pegew.rangelandwildlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740480/3300791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kingdomgraphxx.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969699/471798.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/1/0432/6345/9486/files/zegokajakuwofulotegoxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3836/6113/files/bakivilanogemoluvibedobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7107/6520/files/round_to_decimal_places_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1604/5222/files/watch_american_pie_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4702/files/befumodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3651/5221/files/sekirugowutuvigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2732/files/82792363064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9343/3246/files/active_learning_methodology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1179/2286/files/musunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0953/2316/files/gifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3528/2856/files/14518645192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9724/2280/files/vekibogeleketavizutabe.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_off000076ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76AE 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 95d28721df0d972bf7745d221a6324804b4407e9d05146fe4c1434640125d0ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000880c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x880C 10336 bytes
SHA-256: c81a5c92501a0252477400912b4588be8d57003752fe511ed94cd51101ae0e93