Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4456cc7851f4e2c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f77092c50c651557620f7330b7ba38e9 SHA-1: a5474413ae3ef78d0cf3227659d3bbb784b98765 SHA-256: 4456cc7851f4e2c78b8a6340e8746b18f3c04a19037860c62892917c38411f55
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=11th+science+physics+refraction+of+light+pdf, is likely used to redirect users to a harmful destination. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the same URLs, reinforcing their presence within the document's content.

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=11th+science+physics+refraction+of+light+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lillyzuckerman.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607029/bonezavuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.royaleorchids.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453226/jarenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trailsofhopeandterrorthemovie.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871449/gepoberomogupaw.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/1/0431/5276/9192/files/woodland_wa_weather.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1970/6279/files/wupasusepivemovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4101/2382/files/gazuwene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0345/9230/files/nitigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0940/0214/files/kalesekafuxiwinumafelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68905528383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7114/3078/files/wuzovedubogejumowuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1955/9335/files/egypt_pyramids_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4837/8280/files/17555161944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4897/6032/files/rubigiporaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9915/2799/files/kubezazatawawivewiwatupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4100/5480/files/jiwatevulaxotaxagukime.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_off000055ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55EE 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 004f923caf2505849777e393d1fdfde9696a88ac8783f2c57c6173eac3f7cf8f
font_01_sfnt_off00006880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6880 9584 bytes
SHA-256: 421b161623eaf00bcc8c91fe273de396ea2137557fd93542afaa5fb5201ab5a4
font_02_sfnt_off0000897d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x897D 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 6bb35d4c3676f3032e4a45468878debb60b5044d8b182688b2934f7f19eae780