Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b5e2d4865f00ee6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 522019c18aef8885405228a48b7e50dc SHA-1: 7765c48e454c07e9565bdc1256b18c226d2e3d71 SHA-256: 4b5e2d4865f00ee645bd60e14e75e3403091a2286e74ad1b80c0d6626cf94582
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to a 'certificate format' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The primary intent appears to be directing users to the ttraff.com redirector, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content or phishing pages.

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=bonafide+certificate+format+for+school+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.teddymountainny.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738875/0a353b79a3f728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pupeji.drscapp.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/5271050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ridetripapp.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969897/kigubakazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jasontallon.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070888/351944.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/1/0430/9201/7305/files/bloqueo_auriculoventricular_tratamiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/89618863332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2574/3515/files/monudujenokesujobawebuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1537/9880/files/banking_service_chronicle_june_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3798/2869/files/palexiwurujuweboxofotamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/drug_metabolism_and_pharmacokinetics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19836568605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1409/3986/files/accounting_principles_weygandt_11th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8774/9525/files/92302889043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2537/5125/files/16162402150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3462/1590/files/16910975312.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off00006997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6997 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 0eac1552a6a0cc8d6d43e14f5c157d052ff2bf21460314f67a2c213e0a454e63
font_01_sfnt_off00007a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A7E 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 7ce850bd0de051a53fbbc4fc801005fdd34ea73fef6f3c5946e5b5ea6a216d67
font_02_sfnt_off00008cd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CD3 9820 bytes
SHA-256: 003e5053794185b1bd5f785633b6c0317fb2c7c8db18c96cb26e4c9b7b0fbeb2