Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e7ddb87ed822bcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 13:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d925bec854dc5783ce6a32d6f4ad8b2d SHA-1: f26b3c5cfce87612d4e1814d8c997e603ea7c20d SHA-256: 4e7ddb87ed822bcd596d11a1a2c833c8a5a0782c24c84a4e7150a596bba6deeb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link to `ttraff.com`, identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially garbled, includes the text 'Act of contrition prayer catholic confession pdf' and the same URL, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious intent. The heuristic `PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK` confirms the malicious nature of this URL. Additionally, `PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM` indicates the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to seemingly benign Shopify URLs, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=act+of+contrition+prayer+catholic+confession+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.burntofferingsbbq.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712369/afff73e2f550f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dollbayou.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740549/e6627a674bbcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blackraven6.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969735/a5cd2e7fb456f.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/1/0432/2426/8968/files/biology_grade_12_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6849/files/37762536776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1229/2767/files/pan_enteral_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2812/7637/files/mud_rune_osrs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8344/7968/files/zojufeturuludirodaloroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1977/8723/files/welodojigisolabowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7146/3831/files/95423568318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1992/7713/files/15286237876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3468/files/42086528309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5519/4011/files/11209353732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3655/6962/files/83691376073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1333/files/mitoraguzoxalubinufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8575/6568/files/vavapimedawalezilonamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/buzodobowotarafox.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_off00006690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6690 5336 bytes
SHA-256: d1d24c137466f3802a34990c95ae5532e2674ee06d375e728797cfc6ce419791
font_01_sfnt_off000078bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78BB 9876 bytes
SHA-256: 844980c2628285a9dab7bc32cb9200e9da3fbd7855e26a931f19c9d21ea9a6a2