Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46bcca8429b80c33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 02:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb717e884ac409c5f16536ee89684825 SHA-1: 7aae455249f77b98cf1915c9da991d5afb4672d1 SHA-256: 46bcca8429b80c332df930bbc64700b4f61a9ce92a1f26bae328aae96d8c1f61
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=infomercial+template+free'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references to 'infomercial template free', suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via the embedded link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=infomercial+template+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.supernaturalentertamitedproductions.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/visemomitowezij-fezaweku-xevut-kixivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadodevi.adelantechc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682878/siwiruba-lebuduj-bunibuzowiwo-vofuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3174/0071/files/bedsheet_warehouse_sale_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5894/4405/files/discord_embed_color.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/4766051859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1625/files/kubaxigemosemedititawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4470/8245/files/67174546645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/4353/8332/files/25034655914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/68762073496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/64067427187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3337/7440/files/setesusedokaxajufowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2381/9164/files/moxizesuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83142526711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9805/files/48920840983.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C63 4708 bytes
SHA-256: c9f45ba905b052de677d631fcfc2ecf5522b2a886f0a4489295f8fbdc26ed37b
font_01_sfnt_off00006c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C2F 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 6046a9056bd13ab92d6d44c6a1c5d4de8c58b26d620cdbbc7fbc107cec21ed33
font_02_sfnt_off00008e29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E29 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f