Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee7555345ef77ae9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 72c520fd500cd3b0963d9675b3f0c59b SHA-1: 8e4bf972e7c3427fb1e3ad20ad3d2cabd4a17826 SHA-256: ee7555345ef77ae9fe828e127f01783b3682a43ce9218230bf8784a8a9e29868
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to Shopify, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=22+gauge+stainless+steel+sheet', is identified as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=22+gauge+stainless+steel+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.bitsofbytes.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873738/53d129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dufobifut.freemanpottery.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856543/7aad9020b7b8da8.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/1/0443/5096/3868/files/directors_monthly_report_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4603/3818/files/allyn_and_bacon_guide_to_writing_5th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9852/2014/files/home_depot_sheetrock_lift.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/80954321365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3262/4797/files/panasonic_ag-_ux180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4056/9501/files/67480649967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6956/2266/files/27250452672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1616/files/57329653115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5735/6695/files/87294616839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4033/files/37585592084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8870/6717/files/edexcel_a_level_maths_textbooks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2663/7223/files/auxiliary_view_in_engineering_drawing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4731/3557/files/unzip_free_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4190/5045/files/18763881224.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_off000066a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66A9 4660 bytes
SHA-256: f9becc33dda0cbd36af06ad4aac05adb0deb878fa160a7d0e50ed09ef97d9196
font_01_sfnt_off00007663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7663 10144 bytes
SHA-256: cad13768271132b40cd0c8b804ef62cbf76a6d7c1f522e8699911eef4365299f
font_02_sfnt_off00009930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9930 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f