Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ef1098424942bdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:05:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 045fc73b124c90aa7a6b6e2c41f44d75 SHA-1: 554e162426858ffdf2bbd0b0e451981986288489 SHA-256: 4ef1098424942bdd24b619b0311e5733270caf927b9b249a51f69095b86ab60c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high density of embedded URLs, many pointing to external PDF files, characteristic of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=similar+triangles+worksheet+answers+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to drive users to click this malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=similar+triangles+worksheet+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.abocomix.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453215/4454693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megoti.producedepot.shop/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303189/tupexaxabinolofab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crediblecompanies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776060/tilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.valeriedubuc.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738753/4258288.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/4780083199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6820/files/71494090229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6187/7665/files/78021765765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8758/4675/files/kovowumuwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2187/6899/files/48190325006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6557/3537/files/45423328302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4164/3941/files/bakimifadenexejidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2017/2957/files/sql_joins_cheat_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8049/6792/files/pulomelovijepiwazukaluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3699/7792/files/vancouver_wa_weather_radar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7201/1941/files/falanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9579/3571/files/dezuvenakajitabegalezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0225/6795/files/leed_green_associate_practice_exams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3873/5527/files/square_root_in_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5588/3175/files/risewazumisow.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_off00006527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6527 5716 bytes
SHA-256: 7cd4da9632daa0f70b92da8a6c695d201ac0297f761dc3c2a57907e257d3b64e
font_01_sfnt_off0000787e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787E 10072 bytes
SHA-256: ddfd031b0983f3a731b181c3b6efb0f26c4d7cb60f7f07785c0c3441b472cd3f