Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 241ee38de6ce97d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 04:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a840243744030a1450f340dcea2a660c SHA-1: e8302278f5ec83cfdc93a5166f6d8f66536e252b SHA-256: 241ee38de6ce97d1fedcf54660b52f15982a5fe689480c6bba772e2eb64b60a5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=hourly+weekly+schedule+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm pattern, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to schedules and URLs, reinforcing the lure. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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=hourly+weekly+schedule+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.johnsclassiclures.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712323/893646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coolbyfans.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406060/sofewadexo_bopib_podetuwejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kvwilsonauthor.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710795/5919531.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/1/0430/5541/5445/files/jeramare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1778/0896/files/zifododadunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7061/0851/files/93000810182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9956/9829/files/ropemawasagebuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6754/7552/files/99696036422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0894/9402/files/bavuxoditiwupofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8376/7713/files/lebaxefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8772/files/22533258293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7357/6865/files/9547704052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0223/2983/files/15661888562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/93616534700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0641/9367/files/nojawuvesepifafekomomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2767/7852/files/71315394876.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D59 4900 bytes
SHA-256: ed760f8cc723cb246b3367a65f418f1d0f27e72c4fe717d68a2b77919117b2c4
font_01_sfnt_off00007e32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E32 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 764c95446f57fc448218fcc7cc5927e96f01201266727b32a919d473d54d4c5c
font_02_sfnt_off0000a040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA040 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e

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