Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2e0cbebdc1067c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 01:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 12102edf1d8aef2b253403eeffdfa8fb SHA-1: e6a1221ede8cebf7e7cfd1e362108d795a4f24cf SHA-256: ae2e0cbebdc1067c222cb3b1d89b0ffd6d5d4734dd4d5562c731b1d766a0fe24
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector (ttraff.com). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of a link farm indicates an attempt to distribute or mask the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=tomica+wright+eazy+e+wife In PDF document text
    • http://files.shawanosandyshores.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454126/joxofuwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sanfranciscoschoolofcopywriting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739693/a03d255147dc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.janeincolour.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873828/4402645.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/1/0431/3301/0074/files/86562159717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/18522234020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6113/2968/files/69007978802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/malerofefamizekigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0291/2158/files/the_present_spencer_johnson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0996/5212/files/dilubepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5963/4591/files/sufixagalusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0485/4426/files/tugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6595/6759/files/dorizujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2947/1130/files/69683095418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1723/8685/files/mojisabatum.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1F9 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 02809c95e23ba3293e66bc611cf157ee4e9ac30e8e92aba23b41716e46757fd0
font_01_sfnt_off0000c3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3E6 10820 bytes
SHA-256: c60619da57b7090654e4984f60eab3c792a93f2a7e1a04e195822ecface4a793

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