Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efe8eb160d4a2372…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 292c02a285245a41a0c7f2aba2d21990 SHA-1: 7cab8920d8e3d4d4757d9b6f6f8421ca521836b5 SHA-256: efe8eb160d4a2372adbed3f3945c6a0c188fac442c26c6ac9d0d393d8a4a051d
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to a redirector service, which in turn points to a large number of PDFs hosted on Shopify. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=resignation+letter+format+with+notice+period+pdf, suggesting a phishing or SEO spam campaign. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple redirector links confirms a malicious workflow designed to lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=resignation+letter+format+with+notice+period+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lizromanek.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164204/senit-baxalibowex-vumox-xifivegokokopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.deliriumcarenetwork.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407194/3125143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thejuraguy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406036/wejevanora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zopaart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969717/reguviz-pojek.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/1/0428/6929/3223/files/53386586383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8759/2608/files/88861181532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4869/6993/files/friday_the_13th_part_3_cast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2943/8370/files/44076434267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6710/4668/files/vovujewiweledofaremumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6285/2773/files/48520950993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4631/files/nivufumabunujemuxigetapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9862/8501/files/45023380193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8859/3567/files/68322335011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4409/2566/files/8461109611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3798/2869/files/795738514.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_off00007972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7972 5456 bytes
SHA-256: d5e685e7e16e5df4aafcd9052be8468527e0f92a0e2a2c23beaf0798ad5f0aab
font_01_sfnt_off00008bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BDF 9912 bytes
SHA-256: e731f8fcba96aff988d424b7d6c4597f97faf610ce99f42dc54f81310c863ba0
font_02_sfnt_off0000add5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADD5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3