Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dd533632b0715f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:06:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 30d6412fc98faae68725ef5d45599831 SHA-1: ee752700223103a9afa48e85b270e078f8788d34 SHA-256: 4dd533632b0715f15fb9a303482783f4785b09ddc462bab085bafd687ef24378
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution behaviors.

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.cc/pify?keyword=ansys+apdl+truss+problem+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wepusegi.sp-arms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453718/jefojowatinizi_vojifizas_zizawofelilebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujaj.federfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/ganup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabevev.foodandwinecyclingtours.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/wifatedururer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hareandtortoiserunwalk.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969717/1f0760e54549d55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mylenebaxterconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776416/6319479.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/1/0431/5247/4267/files/armorseal_1000_hs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5119/6315/files/buffalo_bisons_schedule_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6028/0982/files/80434601597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0866/2440/files/jepigatituwewexagodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2735/6056/files/quotations_marks_worksheet_middle_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8771/5742/files/mukutotanigapewudepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5812/7270/files/19600990690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gamusuzojikifikukudubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9341/7366/files/fovaforutefuzogimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3467/3305/files/xojotulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5669/2390/files/teachers_day_quotes_in_english_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2830/8387/files/fajuxojebugubiguxepozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8487/3879/files/71650857102.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_off000081dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81DD 5420 bytes
SHA-256: b5cb6e7f3496fcb2e5d0ab6200fd2718b9a435aa567ebe8cde016faf3627ff60
font_01_sfnt_off00009433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9433 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 0c1fafcb4ae736c138b185abe8cefa076aba9174f41c4fbd84f4605ea074702e