Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e3e5eb9a6ea5429…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8129c348dc6b5d847c24a8d1875759f3 SHA-1: 47af329b4db0427a8250d3bf2dbb59f349528f76 SHA-256: 1e3e5eb9a6ea5429f52bfd381a9c611fcc30105c19205ed5d558273a4c347259
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body text, though garbled, includes a phrase suggesting a tutorial, which is likely a lure to encourage clicks. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ab+initio+etl+tool+tutorial+for+beginners+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic.

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=ab+initio+etl+tool+tutorial+for+beginners+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thesupcloud.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437503/zuvajinarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thepottershousesandiego.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681827/8075934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumobavak.garfieldchristianfellowship.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/zusowegama-rigufa-firudojazof-gixurisolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.justrightpa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379846/miwekipenezofusuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beyondthelearningcurve.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070458/jetupabamem.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/1/0430/2327/0042/files/todikonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5396/4712/files/28299244285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9124/5733/files/beats_mixr_best_buy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0346/1283/files/wagezetudorerexomepare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1646/1211/files/jusinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97428896976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6734/9923/files/8669965313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9469/5329/files/puzimebiwotomutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2666/9987/files/xudubobatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66916333827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7650/files/74860609761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0941/6095/files/rc_model_airplane_design.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_off0000690e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x690E 5220 bytes
SHA-256: dd683eaa4c684a0e67e3b34311a490bb3ecae950d40d3aff0fe03661a6eb023b
font_01_sfnt_off00007acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ACC 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 4fb042c8302ece6f995d61e4fcbbac5dac07c722e2d538f8ede3f865ac6b7c59
font_02_sfnt_off00009e77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E77 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3