Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f54bafd3e94c7e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 65866ec5f873bb5c89b7133192118899 SHA-1: 6f4cb2f2ca33955e8dba62320194ecc37b659295 SHA-256: 4f54bafd3e94c7e4119aea6c44450566373b6aa6b5baf4c575ef993a538d032a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used to obscure malicious destinations. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lead users to harmful content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL and other URLs pointing to Shopify, likely as a lure.

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=biography+or+autobiography+worksheets In PDF document text
    • http://files.kenmeyerjr.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874110/zimixori_gegadimogepufo_mebopopuwaje_rodosefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://punesep.adrienneghaly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739561/ca73345d8980c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.knightdalehsband.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681517/fewijogupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bitoblissfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874039/7840312.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/1/0430/1094/9273/files/causes_of_autism_spectrum_disorder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2521/1298/files/cell_culture_media_market.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6337/8081/files/64627702712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1384/0793/files/zitabijisaderodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6599/9511/files/flac_to_alac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9896/7974/files/biased_news_reporting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/nuvalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9594/0503/files/3009271090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5969/2191/files/how_to_delete_emails_in_bulk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0567/2597/files/andhra_pradesh_history_in_telugu_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41448402009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5206/3125/files/itaste_vv_manual.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_off000059b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59B5 5496 bytes
SHA-256: f9bc1ffdc724f8775340f6acaa829074623d970ab7ecefc85b55e3646bc33283
font_01_sfnt_off00006c77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C77 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 5cb375a15faad5dde2016e27b7209d38d4bc385a6691a918e01c673d78776786

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