Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae0137bc84ccb0ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 00:01:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 42f99b4d7d0e9f3e4747e6fc7bec90cb SHA-1: 2bf155a4bd23de3d13f8329d7b5c45b026c51213 SHA-256: ae0137bc84ccb0baf4941300922f15d3baaada40499851573fac391b1958dba9
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a software utility, aiming to trick users into clicking it. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates that the document likely instructs the user to execute a command, a common social engineering tactic to bypass security measures. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=abby+finereader+convert+pdf+to+word+online', which is linked to known malicious redirector infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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=abby+finereader+convert+pdf+to+word+online In PDF document text
    • http://koterit.catchyadreams.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453278/f2e473c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xidik.wheatgrasspublishing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680981/e547940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luzosuz.vergaspageants.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775531/xetiborurezul-wegevom.pdfIn 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/1/0432/6152/6166/files/digital_photogrammetry_theory_and_applications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2802/9345/files/53565283798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8896/0933/files/gisiwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1075/2663/files/massachusetts_springing_power_of_attorney_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/bitdefender_free_offline_installer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5413/5456/files/plural_of_sheep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0661/3912/files/46610194837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4959/1718/files/analise_fundamentalista_livro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4929/4756/files/adams_tax_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5007/4269/files/photoshop_2019_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2843/8440/files/xowaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2132/files/72048952515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9028/0609/files/gopofilevunazesu.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_off00006c2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C2C 5140 bytes
SHA-256: d0f49a4c3b7587d31285eb18244f306c83f66d9515b871b6824a8a3f2bda7d87
font_01_sfnt_off00007dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DBA 13556 bytes
SHA-256: fe1956de200077b558a564d5733a322253e96d1895268e512490d19610fbb179
font_02_sfnt_off0000a617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA617 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176