Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ede0e9bca49d90c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 13:23:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 52cef6387e36304d9088fcc5e46f0645 SHA-1: 14310f84f61f187acc79cb237de11f08528090f6 SHA-256: ede0e9bca49d90c4fc581edb4a387a5683bee68188ce29c8729a5681e325c94d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=g7+communique+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'G7 communique pdf' and the wkhtmltopdf application, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious content. The presence of many external PDF links, including benign ones hosted on Shopify, is characteristic of SEO poisoning or link farm techniques to increase visibility and traffic to malicious destinations.

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=g7+communique+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.drmanuelamenendez.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739028/763a043e06f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.missionalworship.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302764/0aa1000e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.worxforms.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740764/kakerugonames_jukufamepenib_fedabudifib_lomudigesupoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coastlinemetals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407952/sanakixaxaburovitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.koreanatoledo.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969037/0167074.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/1/0452/4271/2221/files/administrao_estratgica_wright_kroll_e_parnell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/c_udp_listener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7901/6360/files/32570795987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3685/9813/files/66869786434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0027/3830/files/6548919831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7505/2454/files/blender_boolean_addon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7571/4715/files/landslide_in_kerala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/0782/3259/files/58380860701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2021/4681/files/voropufafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3671/0824/files/alstom_logo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/2283550224.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c1ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1CE 5020 bytes
SHA-256: fd52326b4c700fbeb63498bfb628ba40aaa994735ef7232862b1fe9d2f35d7c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E3 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0a17fe3920819ac9c2000ee7fae3a3ac06ae62ffb27cec99586f7dedb9f325

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