Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e4dc6ed2217855d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 09:17:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c40dd994eedad5d02c15f91ebcd0b68 SHA-1: 0e936bbcb67ff6ec0daf11e36fecbe5df433c27c SHA-256: 2e4dc6ed2217855da57bceaf3d80fd957e525fe3a4b7dea80f3bbdf0eaead773
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=orbital+defense+platform+40k', likely leads to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=orbital+defense+platform+40k In PDF document text
    • http://files.steadfasttattoostudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/pasawovafosupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xotuteso.britanniaplace.info/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381706/62e48b172d504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newfypoozoo.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302924/bacf41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josiji.theoneteam.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/6745123.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/1/0429/9243/5359/files/1683790979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5774/8897/files/5194038496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0742/4158/files/foolproof_answers_when_it_hits_the_fan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4751/7341/files/algoritmos_geneticos_libro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8218/5893/files/kerapepizupomitotusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3921/files/gabolopaxeminumemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1488/0405/files/kuratononeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3817/8470/files/figure_drawing_for_fashion_design_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2440/6935/files/100_most_common_english_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0108/4064/files/planet_fitness_circuit_workout_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4411/8428/files/34285783559.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_off00005dcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DCC 5648 bytes
SHA-256: f9433f76dd1a34f4588534651ebbf1eb3a419bce0e434ea04899c278e0f96225
font_01_sfnt_off000070ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70EA 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 082bc579c05106737384f80b4a5ee5e44d15da23e611bf2051fd4ab7d11eef88

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