Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1be373dd3efea4c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7c9b8f457bc7daadc61bb9ac5cd6a8be SHA-1: 6e2cb2df63e4ac5774bff8af65fe1b8dd9cfcd4b SHA-256: 1be373dd3efea4c4a19f6fadf6f5253a4ad8409b8cda0b81ddfecb3fcc587185
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=google+sheets+excel+filter'. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document's content and the presence of many external links suggest a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

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.cc/pify?keyword=google+sheets+excel+filter In PDF document text
    • http://files.wayne-badminton.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/9068208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kelownaplumbingsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398156/vudejinu-kedav-benosagulita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajiputo.mrjonesteach.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/nijuzijelirep.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/1/0431/9356/5342/files/pababadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53293114795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9114/9471/files/valusijuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3137/8592/files/xixexutoriniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2434/3462/files/adjective_worksheet_grade_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5461/9041/files/lakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9202/6271/files/jisoravug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4357/0343/files/67297407613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4170/5384/files/architecture_diagram_of_8051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6745/7188/files/spatial_data_analysis_by_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/gosofasukifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3712/0933/files/pazita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8761/7436/files/98896837934.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_off00006b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B8C 4712 bytes
SHA-256: 4094fd89c7783505860c56734f14c27582fe8ac4230a96d3502a088ee0f79da1
font_01_sfnt_off00007bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BB9 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 39568a10ecedf74565980123a172d966e04244e215cca706cd5d1ba4d60d49a1
font_02_sfnt_off00009f9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F9F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71