Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 382ced15b642c2aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 02:04:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 61b4370b697d3eccc7c5ab15d63e6980 SHA-1: dc26d33ddbaf8c8494a5c85ce888063871484e7c SHA-256: 382ced15b642c2aa3521a1abd5e5207a322b7e309f81391edb89d9199d0d342a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pdf+to+eps+linux'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3725/9936/files/nodepedesizazibilujigudo.pdf' being the first listed. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, reinforcing the malicious redirection attack pattern.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=pdf+to+eps+linux In PDF document text
    • http://files.lhasaapsocanada.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740521/jaxatasubida-kesojeronewate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nvrenstore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739806/4408988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.essenceofbeautydublin.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637057/9362341.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/1/0438/3725/9936/files/nodepedesizazibilujigudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4573/9941/files/69498142133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1914/9216/files/refako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9432/files/hadoop_administration_tutorials.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5165/6102/files/38438113125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4089/1292/files/togilubirojabuberip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5866/7415/files/35872881862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2538/3074/files/80937808690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4244/8295/files/funuxojomotimunelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/64238793182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0490/8952/files/97544096977.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_off000073c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73C1 4680 bytes
SHA-256: a504a978cb30aaaec959e4ec592c5f7b1b59795cd55b0dfce4bac6f44f6fc934
font_01_sfnt_off000083c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83C4 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 95677f0385563bb32c4737d8f25ea89cadda04f1e00387976be0296d170a8ecb
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6EA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c