Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b131f4ad6a8d7177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e2347f0d2ef430cf85b6439a5678a251 SHA-1: d4693c3d722d35e07ebe18c6f7a99f328543257d SHA-256: b131f4ad6a8d7177fe19e684f5532f5f0fbf428c84478f1374f0a92b2da2c505
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=statistical+arbitrage+machine+learning+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains obfuscated text and the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not 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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=statistical+arbitrage+machine+learning+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.albanianamericanbarassociation.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/dumowivibufominekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.juliethegardenfairy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739116/f474d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southbuffalowheelhouse.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/korovuzeverukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amberward.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454034/8473888.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/1/0433/3250/1656/files/45062101475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3482/files/vizikujuseliwebanixiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2812/6618/files/22038376514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0271/4536/files/22686025704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1177/6416/files/xudejubupalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/luvibuxunefipefijuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9775/1709/files/nobibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3957/2643/files/raloxabuleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8307/9592/files/handboek_ergonomie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3467/3305/files/foxekizawizidimuvobexavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0576/9888/files/69004736871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2451/5229/files/74064800119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4145/5261/files/6856664720.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_off000068fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68FC 5812 bytes
SHA-256: b01b95d7cbd9eebdfdd9d42733cd1a8a8fb415fbb23b16c292ca236b0c5b1b1b
font_01_sfnt_off00007c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C82 9804 bytes
SHA-256: fad5e8c5beef82bd5f50f8ba984fff808c3613e524bbaf7e099b7f7949c660a2