Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4615d80acb04f0a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:17:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fea3223099f3096128f613dda846af3a SHA-1: 7743a56bba00e7e0e7196713576757e8198c626a SHA-256: 4615d80acb04f0a4d0f6cb459f52db3db5249d120a4c545fe1454c240d94c608
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=geeklink+thinker+manual+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF SEO link farm behavior, embedding numerous external links, many of which host PDF files. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains embedded URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link within the PDF.

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=geeklink+thinker+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.allezmag.co/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/kedibonigozet_lolubabemore_gamukemitotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pashaw.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775108/87bfd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hannkhigg.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775220/6304614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innerlight-center.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070051/a44dc6.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/1/0435/1832/8991/files/67227476272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0280/5921/files/lanisadewunaduxuxuwabupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9180/3801/files/que_es_auditoria_externa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7185/5002/files/todatulurowovuwegaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6897/1418/files/90351313779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1537/2949/files/sagan_bonjour_tristesse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3969/4741/files/oxford_english_thesaurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/mtu_it_downloads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2259/8823/files/wuwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8908/files/bixeloluxudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2665/3090/files/3508671643.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_off00006c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C34 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 68dedef32bf2f58ee913b7c1dc50e62a7f1a3a187205cc40347738deccd0eb3e
font_01_sfnt_off00007dbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DBB 9968 bytes
SHA-256: 8152d7abf36ab7ef713058ee8f6ca1efa60df567799fc72ae361a0d68c06e549

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