Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cea43a570824da2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 20:40:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 236b2069c25114b61d9327512de1df6b SHA-1: 98cb454f5d243504292aa4ec5fe7e6412f183405 SHA-256: 4cea43a570824da2a2ea281c0a4f1c3e1d5de68976b4a206e505b9c2fba3907f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=wolfram+mathematica+8++free'. This indicates an attempt to lure users to a malicious site under the guise of a software download. The presence of a 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests that the document might be a decoy, instructing the user to open a password-protected archive, which is a common tactic to bypass initial security scans. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the attack vector.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=wolfram+mathematica+8++free In PDF document text
    • http://padav.marvinjwolf.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453293/74de244ae258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mmejoyal.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606262/93b35d.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/1/0432/1689/6159/files/nationalism_vs_globalism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3038/0698/files/67887096101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6114/8832/files/27011106974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9938/2170/files/ielts_academic_reading_practice_test_2020_idp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1616/7328/files/maternal_nutrition_and_fetal_development.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4121/6919/files/git_overwrite_local.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3739/5866/files/best_computer_science_books_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2559/6573/files/88069259853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8384/8093/files/rimurapoporajupowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3106/files/31924322325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3654/0069/files/mibopuxewalov.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_off00005a96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A96 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 383f351fadaef4594056e8e5615fd1f78074cdafba6fc33256be06da1a58ad96
font_01_sfnt_off00006b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B03 9900 bytes
SHA-256: 216ab7e4f15fe22f5fe4045880580affb9dc0923872fb62d4ed05955d43f62e6
font_02_sfnt_off00008ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CE3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361