Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41c64465f911d77c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 00:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 767aea07a2fd8cf24ae86f0e24dfa3b3 SHA-1: 1d586840de3292f0a103ed01567ff8c7b8e22108 SHA-256: 41c64465f911d77c74545a73c2459c8b22e33e6c7c6733c556a8967aa34c6f22
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bon+voyage+french+2+workbook+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to trick users into navigating to a malicious site. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign Shopify links, likely used to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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=bon+voyage+french+2+workbook+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jexot.display101.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/sozimikotufemem_suxabizolepid_funolaseviv_nujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lulalake.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775515/8037508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewew.midmichigandogtraining.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/a3e2d53c2ed3.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/1/0447/3107/2666/files/menu_dieta_cetogenica_30_dias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2515/4716/files/billy_elliot_movie_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/27808697679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5594/6647/files/pirate_bays_se.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7500/files/58964228890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8292/3676/files/cancer_stem_cells_implications_for_cancer_therapy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5962/files/cetoacidosis_diabetica_y_estado_hiperosmolar_fisiopatologia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kepudanunakadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2987/0230/files/nidumatebefutuxuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2728/9496/files/difference_between_id_and_class_in_html.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
🗂 Part of campaign: display101.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000042c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42C5 5848 bytes
SHA-256: 358750cee943ae87799abddab85f8b96e2362850127dbbc784464fe410746a25
font_01_sfnt_off000056c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56C4 9564 bytes
SHA-256: a99d22bcd93c3c48c2648acb3101073bf8e47aecaef833c4626849c1cef0eee7