Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c2cb5e70c546c89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb1ae8cf8ea2cbd8a640ce0894001bbd SHA-1: 20265d54c9b95ed0202c20d1576296e169ccd45f SHA-256: 4c2cb5e70c546c8990c7a345f016bc493ef491ca1521dcdbef307ded46ae4830
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing, designed to trick users into clicking a link. The document contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it hosts a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com', suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 36 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=bodyguard+2011+subtitle In PDF document text
    • http://files.endohealing.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969270/mazovupuw_juguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.socialvalueworld.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739715/gexozo-xemevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.castleminiatures.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/kikibegetaxefuwok.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/1/0431/8422/6453/files/wisuvupuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0382/7608/files/37560228998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7273/2836/files/kosexodugazarizepupuletiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6389/2375/files/principios_de_asepsia_y_antisepsia_en_quirofano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1555/2672/files/tifomaboseruromewopilad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0118/3384/files/sugagolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5844/3941/files/8256904726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3658/9730/files/guzagivupewaduxatude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/pokudojorawesudofivudilab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1909/2647/files/cazadora_de_hadas_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0615/6190/files/kupivujefu.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00006ba3.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x6BA3 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 2230bd42c992c57c813e347c93cb183a0cff591d1be05b53d6cf9240fefc19dc
font_00_sfnt_off00003d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3D98 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 81183cf330283a216ad44e7f210f5df572d44cb5ff5427f8a1305d34a4d12a58
font_01_sfnt_off000050c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50C4 7856 bytes
SHA-256: d196a190268f31a9c90c3f35ce06645d4bc143c83c213e0d656caa2a8bcfb86d