Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46fe4d1ee4fdf489…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 19:02:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2b7666285e2f3ff56a91ae7597fedccc SHA-1: 60c9a8f147ed325416ce34f0ed55732ecf224922 SHA-256: 46fe4d1ee4fdf489b47e5df26a715c3a2817ccb0515c81af2df7a3cef80533c4
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 'ttraff.com'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a survival guide. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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/wb?keyword=closers%20survival%20guide%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.demesstainedglass.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814958/fenuz-fujubinadabevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.riefcanada.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303126/fesitagatekamog_lupixevivor_jigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ecirunner.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452904/16333f.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/1/0431/0643/5232/files/38853887126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1149/6347/files/laronowezizobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9944/2590/files/xenomabuzejagebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3459/0878/files/46419800491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0496/8603/files/pelupalafupixevugonulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1373/files/jorazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6881/7562/files/93243760181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7956/4448/files/84565178916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7149/9416/files/kulizifoginir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0081/2952/files/munenolabepara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2335/8358/files/bajogapopagavozex.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_off00009e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E40 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 0af703b8224c8223479dddb13179a8210045a3567c5401832d87139fbc136a6a
font_01_sfnt_off0000afee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFEE 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 8e6f122f81cb7cb91fd2cf57468c8c689dffc990601c7941e97b533a2d982b85

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