Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f321206dac15b179…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 12:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7355729838a9b88c5798c016efe66483 SHA-1: 36e19461e1e5b02a527b252caa68eb84a93115ad SHA-256: f321206dac15b179fa9f719086cf14429e4b93857bb034c9dfeea438ca8c1595
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=einstein+summation+convention+pdf`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure.

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=einstein+summation+convention+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.modernwellnesscounseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438071/pinobosikojimagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stephanieryckman.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381363/nibiteken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daydream-art.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381919/subukilifetajimibe.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/1/0431/1659/3312/files/jotawetitixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3673/5645/files/68607338042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7328/9888/files/xuvulozoromowapafutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zumimulapowekulusevenire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6127/8870/files/31365556568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2959/files/dezosebobugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8746/2551/files/85619344636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5106/5243/files/44078430996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5693/8664/files/lodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3320/5655/files/66477926778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/88101905250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/fawazodipuzekivozora.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6539 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 6113d7367e7e2e874e721829a57d795fab152510248b8f74d8d67574d5f5b70d
font_01_sfnt_off0000766a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x766A 15688 bytes
SHA-256: 4f69d7708115f1e2bf2c2335937fa08c6fb83cf592a76d69697c0e6f392eb9d4
font_02_sfnt_off0000a744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA744 16500 bytes
SHA-256: c56eadffec578cc8e6090184e238c9b6b38aefbd1920fb8acda36855ab9346ac
font_03_sfnt_off0000bd9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD9F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2