Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4efe21ff78bcc200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 01:16:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 460b111642a69ed98fd151fdf8de2010 SHA-1: 2188882ccb1472fbc6e1d8985fd75be2762f0fbf SHA-256: 4efe21ff78bcc2005286339255bbe27feee76c6562a0ec022030362d4a0ac769
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bnz.+co.+nz+app'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, with a significant portion hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'bnz.co.nz app' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure related to an application or service. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further supports the interpretation that the document is designed to trick the user into interacting with malicious links or content.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=bnz.+co.+nz+app In PDF document text
    • http://files.welloiledmamadesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/jolozasaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shahrizzal.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872105/jaliluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jesotimi.dentistrybiological.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738950/tipirafubomutobebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joellemeristal.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873820/6a6dbf.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/1/0437/2175/2726/files/37265303093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/gujibavirabisaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7529/5640/files/inventions_and_inventors_list_with_pictures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3821/8152/files/baixar_adobe_reader_x_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3600/8871/files/12612175103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2638/9912/files/47225324197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3953/8851/files/xapotivegibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6647/5174/files/20140455139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/nutozefapusafovofimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6307/4213/files/fozanaro.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_off00006df6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DF6 4752 bytes
SHA-256: f4006f2d6941de46260037d40c6babd58c3fa71d15ba8f0532bd2a492ca545ec
font_01_sfnt_off00007e3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E3C 16156 bytes
SHA-256: d1df8d7e879b600ad5d0b6912ff86f11121a1d5507ab7b709093c216973d5d15
font_02_sfnt_off0000b032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB032 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0863d6dcdfe3ce59f67395a06e5e8634226e44f713773c85e494ff6d119ee1