Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b9990040ce5caca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-07-24 16:41:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9ffc41df513b543962278157b61264e2 SHA-1: 080dad61c2324501ea9fe0b57befc2962e6c53ee SHA-256: 4b9990040ce5cacaf32dbbdf40f35eb7bd79e50616c1a97aef6cd040fe81bb51
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic indicating a social-engineering lure to install a browser extension or update. It also contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary mechanism for delivering a payload. The PDF also hosts a link farm with numerous external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=browser+video+er+ipad In PDF document text
    • http://files.lowcountrywindsymphony.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637043/nuberuga-tolagumiritev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leafingthroughbooksandtea.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398541/2a00011198582bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plushunltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873930/kunifebulinozusorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bayareazetaplayers.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453610/boxaxipilamebu_dowizep_mevoluwerotagug_jimasotudepiseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daveroeducation.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776590/3303937.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/1/0430/4837/0333/files/76338223728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5258/9465/files/60658920540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6948/8798/files/wemijuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9453/9429/files/xefetigusiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4669/0203/files/dafakeposonorarurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5729/9097/files/48178633190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3488/5796/files/85499607239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/9158575604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9423/5553/files/zesezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8180/8549/files/tibabefolekutede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6946/4991/files/79795675318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66179678401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/5622662358.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_off0000705f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x705F 4724 bytes
SHA-256: 351646f83d5b85e1c2e66cdb0411489ba65af94aa16284df355240cbd0fa42c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000808b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x808B 12752 bytes
SHA-256: a0f20820f771d213e169819ff4751a2106183164b0936427877aa4444b883039