Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49306e494e3d5cc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-09-18 08:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 87e7826ebb6effb5cc70a70074d02f5d SHA-1: 41390f7f798e2c28705a6596922058ccf77d80a9 SHA-256: 49306e494e3d5cc515c158af5b002515eec1d2b885e804729347e6c7d2ac7ccb
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, identified as a link farm and a malicious redirector. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=fundamentals+of+abnormal+psychology+9th+edition+pdf+free', suggests a lure to download a specific PDF, likely leading to malware or phishing. The presence of a link farm indicates a broader SEO spam campaign. 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=fundamentals+of+abnormal+psychology+9th+edition+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://dafom.maileandrus-price.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453046/bb5971ce3bce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sexolawid.brandonbootleggers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398404/jagasegoliboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cprtampabay.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682607/8824002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daxol.americafcunited.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739431/kularugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elementssalononline.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738836/puwifami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mindthestep.nl/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378838/5c3cdb167e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jukebud.redeemernewton.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683008/paginowevugalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jmfenterprisesllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/gebed.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://2950de59-08db-4e2c-92a3-1dec10e77103.filesusr.com/ugd/359e64_b36fda4bc7e14b268af5ea9163dc19d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0481/7233/5255/files/32406042234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8202/8958/files/walifanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8709/files/72219820646.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_off00005795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5795 5804 bytes
SHA-256: b47ba476ed10d797b21607befab36fbf238fb6d0fb668d461b6273e413410683
font_01_sfnt_off00006b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B27 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 935eceeec612f131d99e861315ee67f2cb29fe34650ceba3a748037279ce1852
font_02_sfnt_off00008ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EE2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361