Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96eb19de9f423bc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 01:22:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f6286dca7a42fe7b8d8dd5fa1ee8e4a SHA-1: 2787428bccc142cb80001896e946c8e5a1b9026b SHA-256: 96eb19de9f423bc8b99d29fd34fcd293f00aacff8f66d67ed80d54c479170eb0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to its structure, which includes a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO link farms. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=half+elf+half+tiefling', is known to point to malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body contains garbled text and a URL, suggesting it's a lure document designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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=half+elf+half+tiefling In PDF document text
    • http://files.msmaco.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070330/2f43fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.austinpianoschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302732/747092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newhopetherapyhs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437283/donig.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/1/0433/2437/5194/files/zawemaxoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9803/8679/files/14030825880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5392/4004/files/tuvafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0655/7341/files/30055327768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8365/2506/files/17422732467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7001/3086/files/97210272266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8858/4605/files/jawoxorozinixunixetabevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7089/7824/files/wigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/26213681137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6690/files/1599929874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4506/9724/files/2707472158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8072/0294/files/1409375558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2917/6232/files/salem_tractor_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7102/0954/files/bitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3701/5719/files/70601420892.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_off0000dd9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9F 4716 bytes
SHA-256: 052c825c92178021f8c26a8d13c2568cd4b92d346c08b263c0430fc160a0b2cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000edae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAE 10764 bytes
SHA-256: bb0b9a4e22436601e91f457b38d1efc6525920115c6d886c01d028de2803865b