Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee13304d1991ab0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-07-31 17:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7df78ef39e20548316f00525e9538ebc SHA-1: f89aeb8fd1a5c9c9f40d698078b6a3d5bf09f69a SHA-256: ee13304d1991ab0a852c766ac5a99361a44af6a318d21e4248510b42933fb9b5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Addends T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=elementary+linear+algebra+7th+edition+larson+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further compromise.

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.com/pify?keyword=elementary+linear+algebra+7th+edition+larson+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.meghanloweryphd.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969572/8a0982a7235a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.missiontruespirit.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969740/wutusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gaipsec.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775245/fugonex-dinonegofisibo-fujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lakeandplain.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739470/2353988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beautifulskincarebymayra.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874613/3117283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8477/4552/files/nuparadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0084/7781/files/31371375015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/58035307852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8451/2418/files/woxuvikosuvurekejilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7728/8611/files/dekibumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0851/3432/files/64419051428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7034/files/wimixetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/1698375560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1136/6309/files/besuxuwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5074/5512/files/tilebajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4191/5042/files/16602114840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8692/0347/files/86907704534.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005d8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D8B 5520 bytes
SHA-256: ab7ca1d611d8f9d089ad1c5326bef2d5a29b116b66276f95daac1184c785e249
font_01_sfnt_off00007027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7027 12312 bytes
SHA-256: e7630546ec736d13e3ace03953d80bcec1f32784cf95210f49e24be08a4ccb3e
font_02_sfnt_off00009724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9724 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f