Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c40a650468534366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6d296ce3517363e5d94bcbc996c5b59f SHA-1: af8206065e0e4986859b35c416f5b2f9737ad6a9 SHA-256: c40a650468534366eab43caf4d588173a2e87d2be8233dce3176868dae9a3263
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=reading+street+4th+grade+spelling+words+pdf', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing educational content.

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=reading+street+4th+grade+spelling+words+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kekenefa.mysticplanet.shop/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681464/rukowivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainlakesclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164350/gesewiridi_vejajabone_sixemowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedupeba.pechamps.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739024/sajazusagonun_mesamu_fonorewikoxe.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/1/0434/0498/4483/files/zunurerozoduxemubokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/66137309271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5523/2677/files/august_month_current_affairs_vision_ias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3493/5447/files/pototave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mazimuzoxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/79894841610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8998/3640/files/nalibafokosofegozekusova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3531/files/deniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6164/0358/files/90725908518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8125/3535/files/viwomokawigodanevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6281/9990/files/becommerce_market_monitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3903/9388/files/29313155218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6546/5245/files/belajar_coding_dasar.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
🗂 Part of campaign: pechamps.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D60 5488 bytes
SHA-256: d0fa554019b404e183b45cb7bbf467aa60a26e8435f9f4e5fc75e30ebc103974
font_01_sfnt_off0000701c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x701C 13312 bytes
SHA-256: 65470c46cb2631321bfd023918bc0d66c198aaa5204d8ed8939f0a72bf712860