Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ce8955c4e443ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 73f6cbe46ebd8897147a413ba31073e3 SHA-1: e2921c7bd779c6cbd926ed1df18419c583bc9c0d SHA-256: 1ce8955c4e443ba44b90e86bae32227ddb0bbb50e294da7e583112662e692e85
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'advantages and disadvantages of social media pdf'. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=advantages+and+disadvantages+of+social+media+pdf, is used to redirect the user to other potentially malicious content. The presence of a link farm indicates an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content broadly.

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=advantages+and+disadvantages+of+social+media+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dovowefer.compliancevp.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/bonigodaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.profeditenglishservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/9e02e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.truthsin.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636923/mosedawofugun_pupogegebetij_mivasiji_vugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kilazafi.valeriegriffinrece.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/4869676.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/1/0433/4937/7174/files/kikewusuvipolifamuxapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8806/8254/files/kubibexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3004/5091/files/60717640236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0689/3985/files/bogatefuleziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4162/8053/files/88806778739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0668/0484/files/types_of_advertising_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0048/7332/files/fexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7639/files/clicker_hero_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1778/8830/files/xikowasenefujofabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1998/5319/files/nalaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4659/1903/files/equidad_de_genero_libro.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_off000064ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64AC 5428 bytes
SHA-256: bf009a1b9777ecb6885ee2629bb863ee47ffa0731593855aa9243ba85691a54b
font_01_sfnt_off00007728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7728 10388 bytes
SHA-256: c68122614d8dc7c949d261ab6356dfcfe9e961832f2636c925be14aba2e68512

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