Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 414562ed15427369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:47:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 598b24afa903712aac336cebb52b5536 SHA-1: e1e60b7a22d5eff69aca889ea4d1625c3cf0c599 SHA-256: 414562ed15427369629da73142d4900664225c96515a8e8603d6b1abf9e454e6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=reasoning+backwards+gregg+young+pdf+download'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick the user into clicking it. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains, likely for obfuscation or to appear legitimate. 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.com/pify?keyword=reasoning+backwards+gregg+young+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.dycaaup.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606173/jekela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.metamorphasis.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398347/a5c263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allamericandoorofindiana.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814308/77e867ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thatartgal.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163590/kafupakizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thechildrenspiazza.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/seronekoxa.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/1/0431/8802/7555/files/rx75_john_deere_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4329/9232/files/lerakixiwejotodemisijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1059/6765/files/minecraft_world_presets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2756/1634/files/98023949513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5045/8520/files/73277054215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4079/8885/files/limitations_of_demographic_transition_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0726/2370/files/mad_mad_house.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5235/2159/files/zolaguwexasafamozuxazatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/jefuxotimobunalonixabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2093/3528/files/synthes_humeral_nail.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1263/6315/files/mupejanisobike.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7345 5728 bytes
SHA-256: 50d73b10f4cf46843b19d31a957a24c1a96e6214ee2028c2878f896c00a2cedb
font_01_sfnt_off000086fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86FC 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 43757e34ddc45a4c5a57d877b38c450fd5ea5a120645aed198c652ef3848d541
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB6D 16836 bytes
SHA-256: cc4dcf9b3f20d6ee28823ee0c936756282ca457d240c648fb056104074dd32c9