Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 491d04c1dd46d84f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 13:07:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6700ee5716e1bb6689450454820a286e SHA-1: f5f72af6ff2810da6137ad986803b383fe7f5542 SHA-256: 491d04c1dd46d84f5c7e31609860997982dbe3fb32cb0d613645c62b695c1124
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain garbled text, but the presence of the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=fassbender+swanson+funeral+home' suggests a lure related to a funeral home, possibly to disguise malicious activity. The high volume of external PDF links also indicates a potential SEO manipulation or link farm tactic.

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.ru/pify?keyword=fassbender+swanson+funeral+home In PDF document text
    • http://files.aquietandpeacefulplace.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814121/9263829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coolanniestravels.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607404/9597755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gabrielsadzewicz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438120/pelikuwezu.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/1/0428/8249/8716/files/25511398507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4650/files/46334005380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7395/4204/files/rinuxufokebilopalutojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5015/3622/files/winafiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0126/6851/files/96158583754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3064/2837/files/keguzibizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8496/2200/files/58714992820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3013/4427/files/jetibefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9238/5700/files/4640349210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8130/2167/files/lawrence_welk_theme_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1917/9931/files/bewizizilalajapawovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71409998288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1679/8883/files/rovulirosuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5014/5704/files/jajobefanojuzu.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_off00004cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CD0 5336 bytes
SHA-256: c9d1f57f1385395669b4aa7d7a8a242a10d335ddbab79b26af174c9301a33d81
font_01_sfnt_off00005ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ED8 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 49bc0bd10e68762a6e9631cd04339201912a269708335a103d071078acc09017

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