Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2848e4cdbc6fa0b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 16:14:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 514135073a8ce87679be3dfc03785755 SHA-1: 07a21ee5f66def8f2121bf2c238631b21b2c044c SHA-256: 2848e4cdbc6fa0b15ad5983555196a1b45f0862d9a29e6c9b66ab7d9600fd258
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external PDF link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify domains but one critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=utilitarianism+theory+definition+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content under the guise of providing a PDF on utilitarianism. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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=utilitarianism+theory+definition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.soniamadelineevents.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856632/f4314c32232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fatshanrecords.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398406/291125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kirschlaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070062/421213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nmsfamilycenter.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856602/8343195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charmingandchair-ished.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636642/a0982758cb.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/1/0435/2560/3488/files/e40_block_brochure_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kaxepetumikikexozifaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/72955539045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9114/0510/files/dunen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8991/1194/files/vulibemelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0583/6438/files/pufudafadoburisotaxipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7680/5013/files/44711083156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3422/9398/files/nofiseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7540/3936/files/20256697797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9268/0611/files/10716706861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4628/1122/files/4573366869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5475/9069/files/293101642.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_off0001bf00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BF00 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 60599f7af1e923a7f083e8cd360cb552baf8027dc0f1182f3f6dd8e58392f14e
font_01_sfnt_off0001d05e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D05E 10388 bytes
SHA-256: eef92be7eb3bed8098ff11ff59aa36c927e702b77f0f76adf5d9fd3c0ae0c331
font_02_sfnt_off0001f3fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F3FC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176