Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14a052b9f9f89aa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 727ac7c911e30e0d7f29d60ea91419de SHA-1: 704df9e9f3f3f814745c8bb5a135d77eea07cf1a SHA-256: 14a052b9f9f89aa6b6763be126f841af739fb42cf72bcdc78300bb5a316f1e16
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=about+meditation+pdf`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, indicating an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=about+meditation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thelongwellfiles.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382531/323278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michaelandsydneylovepi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874246/5e228cecea244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.digitalsimon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775267/3533482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gammaetaomegaaka.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398010/3483613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegexowin.powwowpitch.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696111/05bb9ef8cc2.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/1/0429/1795/3702/files/numogebekibomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4607/5554/files/78534900548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0723/7531/files/41955636568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9004/3287/files/42262201332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6496/5782/files/sefugawitaborav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/23851177014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wefudebavisizaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4954/2047/files/94609336910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4464/2715/files/xofutijixiriwuk.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000655b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x655B 5012 bytes
SHA-256: fa0cb0c2fabc047c572ff0f4baf958025090b4d3c61e8057d420c21934de79cd
font_01_sfnt_off00007651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7651 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 06794fa861fbb403cb9ff8cf5df5ebeae3344a9bfed8377bc9a677b3a40a77d5

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