Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49043ab6b545e524…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 21:13:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 52a4cefbcec5dcf9b991d79c026af328 SHA-1: 958a118050bbe8cf20a1a6806f8543669e1654ea SHA-256: 49043ab6b545e5243760d3aa7f0a1285fa804f9e527a08c1d89f7e7753da7f3f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that the link at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=genocide+a+sociological+perspective+pdf' leads to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely to manipulate search engine results and distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=genocide+a+sociological+perspective+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lauriamusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857315/7329853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tregeek.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606144/zifetamelozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.casinodealerswebsite.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383493/punakonol-visawadij-jusuza.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/1/0432/7319/1580/files/tifezilomakojisoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lojuxefututa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9610/4348/files/55985524952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jepomosojavadoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1938/6526/files/doguvadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pekazojifedabefotekufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30547733638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52733892229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9885/7891/files/96054384394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0509/1745/files/turodijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/nufadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6059/9711/files/9896951054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3269/1363/files/38296786633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4580/files/dalujiwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1095/7210/files/jemixujase.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_off0000714a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x714A 5204 bytes
SHA-256: e5771cf9dc927de312b3082c047cbea68d7961b31f4e476c23d9788dc71be2f3
font_01_sfnt_off00008313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8313 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 4ac1b9b7872ca70bcc371d9a2c1dc99a38253451a4c158be4b34431b45afe38c

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