Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22f4943cac40b115…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:14:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e2e41381edb1e2e239cc98d52bc174a SHA-1: abeb91b2b0498a54876744731272352d58c14c7e SHA-256: 22f4943cac40b115ef431a072a51eddb0279cf69b6a9b8d26243c3f51b8decbf
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.com`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'The way i am eminem pdf epub', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates the likely purpose is to lead the user to a phishing page or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=the+way+i+am+eminem+pdf+epub In PDF document text
    • http://files.photosfrommyheart.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453871/f5dbd250fcc6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nanaimobuddhistmeditationgroup.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379340/266ddef98cc64e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.palmcoveyachtclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815031/zorusuwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coopshalftime.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164100/kofubemojodiduxumuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ocsoilny.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/8873986.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/1/0433/3387/7914/files/wumorudesifikedipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0333/1231/files/prescott_microbiology_9th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8138/4604/files/kanitatifinizevenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7228/0981/files/5745553804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5935/4517/files/balanopostitis_candidisica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5647/1959/files/gapovujabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6635/2025/files/lukoradamipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4298/7422/files/22272256216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5154/7800/files/tejiwulabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9665/4489/files/feduziwewalelanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5769/3347/files/vovugetaraz.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_off00005523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5523 5256 bytes
SHA-256: ac9bc62e013b1cf1bced18c82f38a8e289bc8374565083a848d167b0d1c32e30
font_01_sfnt_off000066f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66F6 9928 bytes
SHA-256: 99c637fb1dee88cdd9b01d1c597d809cbca3fb10c2c3e0c3269095706831427e