Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fff6bd3de09a5a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:19:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 700055023b63a47bdadaad449c40b89d SHA-1: 40ef1ae334ec11c2bf070a4d7970df97c8ec7a6f SHA-256: 4fff6bd3de09a5a065dc5a277a0c924e4b054d7b46536f35bb0e7ba5230c6768
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=electrostatics%2012th%20notes%20pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to a potentially harmful site, disguised as educational content. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the payload.

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/wb?keyword=electrostatics%2012th%20notes%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.withlovezoerose.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874541/51722c8b71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ctthompsonconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606965/pikiwevik_varura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wrhg.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407734/1272da26d97f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1047/3633/files/54606944698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8144/0168/files/12579936085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/89854980246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1551/9912/files/xamogimogakegonopijixemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4803/2663/files/pdf_secured_document_unlock_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9154/2681/files/83726506013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5385/8472/files/56221843250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0877/0726/files/85049483839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/donobuxerukafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9240/files/kisikotalusejudakewigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6616/9246/files/87812658785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5410/3713/files/61330745354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6960/2978/files/estudio_descriptivo_comparativo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5306/2043/files/principles_of_centrifugation.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9413 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 96cb8ee3ba3379b4d6b28a5415817f5044cbde5c365502392f4cfd870abbe4c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000a656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA656 13932 bytes
SHA-256: e20c79db3916f4ba2dc2db1a85fa8d3c2242ac45545c979987cf02400b50a259
font_02_sfnt_off0000d2a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A0 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 51b8d4c4f17389d80b23040d591c0dccb099bca9103ea84f58116e310badbe13
font_03_sfnt_off0000e794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE794 4048 bytes
SHA-256: d05e760f6b09777b218384c4e10abb9da46aa9039c5f3ff864e168d1d6808186