Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e9897bbc856ec7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-07-31 20:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c0547f738b5ecbdacabdcda7d33d921 SHA-1: 4ce642eced9dfa9615b8c7236ebeadad26ee37f3 SHA-256: 4e9897bbc856ec7b14967c5763edb9a1abb14017ff44729c28e725755ae1a93a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'cheats' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a deceptive social engineering tactic.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=how+to+use+cheats+in+pcsx2 In PDF document text
    • http://files.finsunited.co.nz/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682134/6577730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brucebarnespoet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739713/leporaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gvdesigncontract.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606260/a1c2e6af4c3891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simplydivinesuds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407812/23f3d849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mevideography.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163834/8128268.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/1/0431/4431/5029/files/sexagugerexokijumapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9875/8557/files/76653822299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9948/0473/files/fikomenidasejozajatoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3095/3630/files/20869933088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2788/9302/files/piwisowolova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6802/3194/files/28992345458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5427/7532/files/12520308109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2861/9168/files/muzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/texirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2515/9576/files/70431616259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9286/9281/files/91345711493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5085/2762/files/37649915590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1751/8751/files/nitoladifarebodemoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9151/6826/files/55985381970.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7447 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 6a3991fbcd9d8d2c02aad38ff981db4f95f50d82d63c759cc5ecc1b0ba9ad253
font_01_sfnt_off000085e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85E3 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 86b57baa21e58109004d0ee12423ef2966ac4cf8e7b272f1a2a9fbee7a075266
font_02_sfnt_off0000a935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA935 16392 bytes
SHA-256: 954f30c1cce2e3a00f07cb0ababb04bf86a3a3c34ed8da2fc782bdc014231390