Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be203832dc6ccd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 02:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 889fbacfe7cdea7ebb0903813631d62c SHA-1: 4c78fd96f927fa32f78064ae61bff50ab6f4feb4 SHA-256: 4be203832dc6ccd38c93e973b33716d138ba09e955cde04e45714705dfc08423
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru', disguised with a keyword suggesting an 'Afmc question paper pdf'. This indicates a social engineering attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery mechanisms.

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.ru/pify?keyword=afmc+question+paper+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.swisskissgreaterswiss.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813738/89663646a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lemawog.clevelandpropshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606056/6895707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joesfamousdeli.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874520/bepewoteg-bujedavolazufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1127/4914/files/birds_in_the_trap_sing_mcknight_dopefile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6244/1637/files/a_distant_shore_caryl_phillips.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8619/2546/files/71939557013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3867/1010/files/91247959024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/3013/files/bulking_up_diet_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9560/3880/files/aluminum_surface_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9774/2750/files/29326797748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5649/5769/files/benofokunajujekuniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7329/7822/files/65571990541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7250/4483/files/12120736218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5959/files/the_great_panchatantra_tales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2341/8019/files/duxakasofosamexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0816/2981/files/zixejibobufiborikagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/79895205384.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009f79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F79 5268 bytes
SHA-256: f8affe538b5df8e9195d0dcf61c30081cf239767740b06b56aff644f8e6e03dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000b144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB144 10648 bytes
SHA-256: c5954a22613b106005e211c16705ad3a5f39d8c8dbf9cd75a280f59e029bc580
font_02_sfnt_off0000d585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD585 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e