Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a82e1feae03c3446…

MALICIOUS

PDF

310.8 KB Created: 2020-09-05 00:06:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4bd74d40d49a882c6efdbb33a9615d41 SHA-1: afef7a29400dc1b4fe8b2ec39908cb8bd52064bb SHA-256: a82e1feae03c344652b9aae367c8cc1f9ac3ff42f7c20547319d952a38dc956c
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a malicious redirector link and uses lures common in advance-fee scams, such as promises of funds or prizes requiring delivery. The embedded URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bts+new+video+2018, is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the primary attack vector is directing the user to this malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9685

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.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=bts+new+video+2018 In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9163/9966/files/gorillaz_2-_d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0198/4662/files/cadences_music_theory_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6373/6485/files/top_games_2018_pc_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4546/5762/files/50075665476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4679/5424/files/a_hat_in_time_modding_tools.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f241d9_7e2eaa71661347a09f056082bd95e115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b2ba6b_e1179671b68f43f79b638b4347e82d71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/96768c_303eeb31b5c54cf2889381b6e8f60ddf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/17159d_58dfc2813ef942a88e2611d2926ebc9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eed56f_c65dfe807581424383c9d3fbb79063c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8706/0375/files/holiday_green_day_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/velebosavexipapasafugidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1067/9206/files/discord_for_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0943/9906/files/simon_says_megan_thee_stallion.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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off00030400.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x30400 118728 bytes
SHA-256: 531bd3e4881b2c8740ad837404b0c4009ac01c7e73239a6e9d86bd233617404f
font_01_sfnt_off0004590c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4590C 4992 bytes
SHA-256: c0781dadd32ca5a849897ea0e9582f1aba397e2fd62566e1c001c9a5d4f3c1d7
font_02_sfnt_off00046a2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46A2F 5060 bytes
SHA-256: df2fe53eb2b0ad7b7f1e3546b5dc26b5e2d25253b2018f8843cfa0a5041ea265
font_03_sfnt_off00047c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47C76 13220 bytes
SHA-256: c42de22a9d1602607d0435a51e0340d97f6d3920f987661d1c20ea5fec0e1404
font_04_sfnt_off0004a8ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A8AD 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 2c5f1a2e3d9f683f6a217a47aeaaae813f7d4ef732a5ff54a929695507d09140
font_05_sfnt_off0004bd73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BD73 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230