Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d6563e388f7aad9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-09-16 19:03:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 866ef5bd93bd1d4ebf6f30e438b38c03 SHA-1: bb1d2f6d4e01720691ef572f59083803eb61fc55 SHA-256: 4d6563e388f7aad9ffe6599b2a99f556be2d7af66df9054c6b235f47f93c70ec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=mr+buddy+heater+manual'. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the URL and keywords, reinforcing the lure.

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.club/wix?keyword=mr+buddy+heater+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.manhattanhope.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454024/kizan_jogesatovimafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikil.tallsycamorecampground.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070381/gaxetiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenogew.reishorerealty.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/849a11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wheelmanspokane.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814706/rubotopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenude.hiawasseeapparel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/nedisulumizuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://fdfc974e-c4d2-445b-bcc3-4c938b10cb11.filesusr.com/ugd/d1c05f_6dfd5966885748129402a3f6f7561aea.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7a682457-fdb0-4706-bbd3-61ced659d25b.filesusr.com/ugd/277b62_4426910e79744512a165fdc75b01a232.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://345bdd64-550e-4c28-8f34-613d94c39693.filesusr.com/ugd/9734e7_1c6f5e50cb174c0581510878e320cd13.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f45956f2-2e52-433d-bfc5-0dfddd845234.filesusr.com/ugd/e3325f_eaae28da27374d6a9098e29295426f40.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8dcb7f16-55c0-49e0-a9a2-3deca07e0254.filesusr.com/ugd/60ffa2_be574d9ef4cc418abc65cd0821cef85c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9150/0961/files/nokomesinesigofuxazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2823/1830/files/diccionario_biblico_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/37278413385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5959/9765/files/37283556999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/2765/1749/files/ikea_akurum_kitchen_installation_guide.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_off000053f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53F9 5136 bytes
SHA-256: d5b69a0d887a9c417633bec0b94dc068b1587b58a3602f9181f7ad4bf5447b96
font_01_sfnt_off00006552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6552 10096 bytes
SHA-256: e9f01e0ea0a642d54cbee3fe83c1cf01a6c2a0a097fb6ff741e4118770190f50