Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 398f4b179bc8c4a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b4ebfc1c755800572cb639db4bd9e662 SHA-1: 2093e4a4e8a6d2ebebd4defd982e68d7e9021ba9 SHA-256: 398f4b179bc8c4a9d84a898e2b579d4f41483af745bf8cd760ea794fefb167b4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a malicious redirector, disguised as a planting guide. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=lambs+ear+planting+guide. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the lure text and the malicious URL.

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.com/pify?keyword=lambs+ear+planting+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.vancouverminiatureshow.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409508/7539949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gammadiamonds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410606/kakujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.linhallen.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681992/bda91e.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/1/0433/3341/9166/files/14181123910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5631/7091/files/gesarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8273/5006/files/32942897718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5844/4958/files/28424001203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9940/5977/files/carrier_chiller_troubleshooting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8875/6384/files/jizobufogapivabosekipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3917/8399/files/kanumetegaletipisebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5468/5599/files/55416741673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3420/4567/files/zirusigiwetamebilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8841/2836/files/acta_constitutiva_de_una_sociedad_anonima_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7719/8229/files/fadigubejuvuxenuwagukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5172/8546/files/wunojufam.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_off0000681c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x681C 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 19bf1d492c0e3c411f3f1ed9bad00c512de7f3131cc977a3d570c1a761e985dc
font_01_sfnt_off00007a31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A31 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 15ec8c0498eabc27883271f5141f70d600de9cebc147c9d12e550f6355712b76

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