Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ae200de18fb8478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 18:44:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e6d823f91d646840767196810a73a5ab SHA-1: 9d22d227a55e9101252c7b5947329c4c1808183a SHA-256: 4ae200de18fb8478ee043d81d01c5e617f7d5140ca016c41fa45207edca41755
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=guitar+backing+tracks+software+free'. It also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, with the first being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6618/6135/files/57704423453.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to trick users into visiting the malicious URL.

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=guitar+backing+tracks+software+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.syncrosafari.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380825/c41f06cc9571a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.digitalliteracycookbook.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738928/f95bac749cb9b6.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/1/0437/6618/6135/files/57704423453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6586/files/24924334963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5394/0887/files/rurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2399/6840/files/vovavevofedaxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2956/8408/files/16351271808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/lock_cells_in_google_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3304/2839/files/nininogisewopexizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1382/4927/files/40300657528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5512/8477/files/64881005776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1229/8648/files/94097525100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3566/4284/files/audi_a3_cabriolet_2014_manual.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_off000072e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72E5 5344 bytes
SHA-256: bf808788ab30c1e55562db885513095b663db8d928fcd0c17f1f56cd9747d97c
font_01_sfnt_off00008541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8541 10472 bytes
SHA-256: d589e5a506fb263b8fdd65dc2a8469cff072ebdd5355cd7b8e6afbbf8cba8903

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