Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ac9d1d9137f56d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:27:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4e1e159dbd4e4d6d4a09d92b821f6ab1 SHA-1: 31a578960387383f604992b361f6da8aec58f512 SHA-256: 4ac9d1d9137f56d8e49bec4844ce09df0d06e85ea95c9ae33dd408879f7dbed0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external websites. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=the+kabbalah+unveiled+pdf', suggesting the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous links, including those hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to distribute malware. 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.cc/pify?keyword=the+kabbalah+unveiled+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thebusybench.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069992/53f41b34a8cc2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jgulbrandsen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814687/menap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temegi.kierstenbrockman.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/1fb3d4d7723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lm1a.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682913/nupanon_nokuroda_rezozi_jovixofukema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.highcountrysportingdogs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384660/dimibepipa_jubisijugi.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/43778875991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5552/0667/files/pukofosevotefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5682/3453/files/causes_of_carpal_tunnel_syndrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9124/5733/files/blank_world_map_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/53831907098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4804/9572/files/vuzujezutofewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1280/8091/files/40225321833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/liwisubusamepumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1821/3797/files/xijajaxuvasomuwoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/18000278097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6848/4758/files/ethical_issues_in_marketing_research.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/21424448523.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000062cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62CF 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 066028c715c991de7c78ceef409f268250c58431027e874cfe435d19342cd619
font_01_sfnt_off00007410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7410 12432 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa370ea54e836ff83d9b2fba46bc4b4fa880c9ec85c09ffaee7896583079043