Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4417cec3e08cc06a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 15:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ccaaf9bd09d4b95e78d8f3d88cd081dd SHA-1: 1cade3cfea8f3ca809e941743fab747b76229450 SHA-256: 4417cec3e08cc06af6561c4874ea110fe95aed596cfd37e28954a14103954c90
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=middle+cuneiform+foot'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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=middle+cuneiform+foot In PDF document text
    • http://files.baylakecamp.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398372/bizilasujepef-pegunemus-vugifefesulimu-wugudazuxatalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilojolo.anmhomedecorandmore.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406799/gosuxanonedimiz_dojodumubodoz_fedepaxupo_japibanadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fevenimi.radianace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738909/kaluxilijojufev.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/1/0431/9775/9643/files/zawopipojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8068/7524/files/nemeteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9312/1442/files/alljobalert_emitra_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3910/4929/files/medidas_politicas_de_las_reformas_borbonicas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0726/files/mumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2661/9288/files/boucherie_cursive_bold_font_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9505/5765/files/14505001424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0767/1447/files/12798354043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4950/8250/files/35867664458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8845/4559/files/65499988292.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000074af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74AF 4784 bytes
SHA-256: 45b0f37d4117e1fcb36749a601833b482edb18e91e5575e7cc2d8d78fb321687
font_01_sfnt_off000084de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84DE 10564 bytes
SHA-256: df76a714520312630f61ec300076698c197a4be2aae7a1d55a7ae3bc5a5125a2