Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e376675a1335f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 06:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6f66af3d36d077275fa81b5d73a81468 SHA-1: 6ebe1620f6bb85730df4b06f27909e2b625c9269 SHA-256: 4e376675a1335f7f896d19b2d1917487f98c2f22742c0f0d50b10409860e3b08
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to shopify domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body text, though partially garbled, contains the phrase 'Annotate pdf apple pencil', aligning with the lure used in the malicious redirector URL. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=annotate+pdf+apple+pencil In PDF document text
    • http://files.sophie-eleanor-photography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/zonatezosaxure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paqu.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871894/vibofukupu_ruzererijolibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomup.joelemireart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/69cf78b48.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32296476761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3301/0081/files/retok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9813/5966/files/62864308506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0728/7206/files/forolomexofikopupedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9233/7059/files/4405826364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4393/7690/files/neninaxupowuwinuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7797/5717/files/91578550411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3830/8512/files/cambridge_medical_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1448/7207/files/molecular_genetics_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6988/8929/files/d3_patch_2._3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0549/2904/files/33190463978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0064/2211/files/jutaxuxulagosagatewogala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6793/9743/files/dugutoguwinewodufise.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67E3 4864 bytes
SHA-256: 8ceb04371b1ab578fc17e3ac5388d6d6db8f46e5b5251e095fafdeb63ecbffb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000788c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x788C 9884 bytes
SHA-256: c92ebdc512fa9b840a66b82c5c897391e4b1509abef40428a9265f35f58db48e

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