Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe064486a49c6e71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 00:16:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9c8ecaa54be6945b74d6a15323bf8ad7 SHA-1: 1e0fca2e9c77007df5309ed06998a75d4c74fc25 SHA-256: fe064486a49c6e71762d5432bd080ebba7dd341966db3ca8438eec0a3dabb536
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=factorio+balancer+blueprint+book', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users through SEO poisoning or a similar tactic to a malicious site.

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.ru/pify?keyword=factorio+balancer+blueprint+book In PDF document text
    • http://files.berenikakolomycka.pl/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739968/mefirul-jikeselokodale-darerased-simajanegenutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.threeravenspianostudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407493/zepegerifiporeluput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.townofhorseshoebeachfl.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380177/zatagazopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/muzoguganava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1816/6167/files/pagawanagapivafonobaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9372/1255/files/gediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6055/2085/files/21132294515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8799/4792/files/15144187247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5828/2152/files/mcdougal_littell_algebra_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0553/4620/files/stephen_king_it_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2450/6266/files/41013270725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5491/4981/files/24321841043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7699/3695/files/45334481872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6397/files/27898520257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/2014_honda_accord_maintenance_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8875/4328/files/6140556664.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6605 4908 bytes
SHA-256: e74403369dc5817cf6996f93491f80bcba1a1348e6534968b963cf9692914e50
font_01_sfnt_off000076c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76C6 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 9a01609e83b058b04e807b0cecffa300a5c1ea871e4a50da35301cc4055d96fe