Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edc879f0fa0f255b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 01:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b7fca68f9717abd8070651c04c5aeefe SHA-1: 4786db6d2083edd8d4069681dcb8a36e3533838d SHA-256: edc879f0fa0f255b53a57d1bce3e0c5b75fbb62a93a53956fd895300dca3762e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=%25D8%25A3%25D9%2582%25D9%2588%25D9%2589+%25D9%2585%25D9%2588%25D9%2584%25D8%25AF+%25D9%2583%25D9%2584%25D9%2585%25D8%25A9+%25D8%25B3%25D8%25B1'. The presence of a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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/wix?keyword=%25D8%25A3%25D9%2582%25D9%2588%25D9%2589+%25D9%2585%25D9%2588%25D9%2584%25D8%25AF+%25D9%2583%25D9%2584%25D9%2585%25D8%25A9+%25D8%25B3%25D8%25B1 In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f929b_ff28002ea5764b00b64170fc7ca2c667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab922d_95a191eda77446e0bd6dffaf0f7376b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b85eb0_d1d2cc966a88406b8eaf836209ff9d73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6912/6309/files/report_abandoned_vehicle_texas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0628/8291/files/public_policy_making_anderson_6th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2566/9028/files/22599817250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nepel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9696/4261/files/amphibian_heart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6472/files/660574817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3470/4034/files/american_harvest_pellet_stove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7338/8190/files/71314793174.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0000e048.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE048 32312 bytes
SHA-256: 4a16d8343d9a361d0ed2b2bea133a32ff220f78dc19627ef5d9c4aa1caf83dac
font_00_sfnt_off00009608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9608 4068 bytes
SHA-256: dbff9e152aad335916b2bee87cd027f069b59f9160570467db14ecf46f1c4e85
font_01_sfnt_off0000a3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3E6 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 448b9f0659a54607f6a7dbd5872a521b74efe30016aa682612a4cf7936804a5a
font_02_sfnt_off0000beef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEEF 9676 bytes
SHA-256: de5482bfbf4dab2ab7a849b47bae46fed2dd0744d0a963dff99a5d3c2e5b0b67