Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9249fded47f8dde6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-26 19:56:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 22bbb8ddac956c9dabc2bccef1ed9b9a SHA-1: 17b075854eb054f55d5c5504ea86a0bf3c77eea7 SHA-256: 9249fded47f8dde6dd3696a17e07718941dc2787c670eb3788f6c311e3240d97
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.me/pify?keyword=final+fantasy+strategy+guide+nes'. The document body, though partially corrupted, also contains this URL and other links to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is used for phishing or malware distribution.

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.me/pify?keyword=final+fantasy+strategy+guide+nes In PDF document text
    • http://fujoji.millbayrvresort.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814526/nevano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mackcommunications.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406435/df6647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newclearrain.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740375/jitape_xedelavez_zaworagu_kijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrstruitt.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874422/vazinewuzi-kumojopuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phoenixsportsclub.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437532/palinus.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/1/0431/6033/8586/files/benim_hocam_ayt_matematik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6880/7578/files/california_apartment_rental_agreement_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9409/8598/files/sapagiwujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3876/files/free_printable_christmas_flyer_templates_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6172/7647/files/canadian_immigration_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5663/6828/files/61319422617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7949/7896/files/equation_of_motion_by_graphical_method_class_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8106/2805/files/seagate_external_hard_drives_drivers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7542/6722/files/70431371362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9704/7447/files/2791591296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3683/4968/files/petawigaxuxetamuzusame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4827/8935/files/fidurewamikavab.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A00 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 85f26e48873048ffe196e2e0ed051857a60aebacbec5360303fceb64e8f3ff7f
font_01_sfnt_off0000673d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x673D 5132 bytes
SHA-256: ee9406b793bc4a95b274877ab713effcd61848e112b9a5210596f355a9d3ddc2
font_02_sfnt_off000078be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78BE 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 12b65cb9ee91f03f91cd69b89343269e2339fcccd536fff69ab9747281b1c3a3