Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4beb98791367289e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:51:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4abd0c271175e241510af45b36eb3cbb SHA-1: 266496444351771a52b4d4a66c0b5dcf30c80018 SHA-256: 4beb98791367289e7e754c408455e6d36be299201e7831fce2d0325ed1afe941
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cardiac+arrest+journal+pdf'. It also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to click on a link that appears to be a journal PDF, but redirects to malicious infrastructure.

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=cardiac+arrest+journal+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bedaleref.gvdesigncontract.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/mixozanedifugeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eatdancebreathe.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710722/zevavisefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christineboake.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740620/f74114b85565e3.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/1/0427/9785/8972/files/kerapeninixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6344/files/wedusodarasewodujapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8303/8874/files/81898739515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5429/3402/files/42888639053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3525/4171/files/70071225340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8486/3893/files/mechanics_of_materials_3rd_edition_philpot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8150/4670/files/turijaxowemibojupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8236/6624/files/repijaraxinodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4890/2557/files/aoc-_cv-_100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5430/9284/files/social_history_of_england_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0273/2448/files/cefr_grammar_levels.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6497/5765/files/rujiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4002/9344/files/51447660296.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_off0000a32a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA32A 5132 bytes
SHA-256: ae25e209a7351c51c3a254bcd81c3582cd29dbfeba120b22026939e67b72a035
font_01_sfnt_off0000b4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4B5 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 73b7f719132f5b8dcf79d22e01d5b526a8c787d54d12785df5403f3ca96141cf
font_02_sfnt_off0000d987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD987 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c