Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f763128ef2ea92cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0f21e12b8c05bc6072cdc470633183d SHA-1: cfcb966cb51210685ed5413f62027b89809f1b95 SHA-256: f763128ef2ea92cd33968728b6ce7821537264550e77f3a7394df066f52015d8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. This is indicative of an SEO link farm, a technique used to artificially inflate search engine rankings for malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ksi%25C4%2585%25C5%25BCki+po+angielsku+dla+pocz%25C4%2585tkuj%25C4%2585cych+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the same URL and the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting it was generated programmatically.

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=ksi%25C4%2585%25C5%25BCki+po+angielsku+dla+pocz%25C4%2585tkuj%25C4%2585cych+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.krakauertaggduo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740517/jizenuvawif-nuwofiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xewepol.morrisrental.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/giteviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabab.speedandsprocket.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856185/tuwasaruxulu-laxopupil-miveporasenijif.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/1/0433/1126/7990/files/bavawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2837/2904/files/knee_exercises_for_arthritis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2657/9610/files/96973275015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6395/1003/files/gedaroropukoturodubome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5863/3631/files/hackerrank_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8890/3325/files/29750053400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7895/9775/files/81057411622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7186/4993/files/pofabelede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6065/8333/files/98654436825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7950/5822/files/48599779700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1625/files/clasicismo_griego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5239/9777/files/ligupaxipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4143/8366/files/32844881521.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_off00006443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6443 5800 bytes
SHA-256: 17e133140f18a240b7fbc4109bac42d1a655c0e944a62747232786f35647f661
font_01_sfnt_off00007766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7766 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 6172175b3cf6ce8d4eab4067486351931a82498accc9672c8c0dce2bf7a17df6
font_02_sfnt_off00009ad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AD0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361