Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b5350e28d0d8904…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 09:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be976d00bfb017cd50d7ae68a56b5e88 SHA-1: f9f0b7dedb3420e60abe60b76d1856be3afc0bc0 SHA-256: 4b5350e28d0d8904a7b4951d3870863f38c706b5defa5c3b98f49bdd0ac3dad1
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a free software download. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the URL https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=logiciel%20compression%20pdf%20mac%20gratuit as malicious. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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/wb?keyword=logiciel%20compression%20pdf%20mac%20gratuit In PDF document text
    • http://gidup.ksouba.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407668/9722816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.boutiquefeisty.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683070/xowalujaj_lexibisopefaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twhawc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814205/busufuposejad.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/1/0428/3911/3895/files/grade_12_mathematics_textbook_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9697/7051/files/csr_bluetooth_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1813/3405/files/58136708958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6032/0669/files/vapuniwagaterotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9147/7159/files/atomic_theory_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9153/2699/files/wigapugunoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/blitzcrank_support_build.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/1220/5216/files/xojolelebunuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9359/0167/files/9801975202.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008bf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BF6 5416 bytes
SHA-256: eee86b9a1cdb0837a70e3f3c1b8c5769126fc8880de133aa126b42d5483bd834
font_01_sfnt_off00009e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E44 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6D2 12924 bytes
SHA-256: ffc1f8142ea52ad229f0dae7df332729520bcaabb7d0213625931139d9ced0b4
font_03_sfnt_off0000cf58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF58 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 103284d61e2f608a7139598a8235a81e034b8e7c39e5230b5d697d4b99ccd341