Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caea02b3383338fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6c62934ab70f97bac791fece1d7b1bad SHA-1: ed851f673863bf498c3d6c6be8b00531c9a33f5f SHA-256: caea02b3383338fe570e3c9e9c8ee450b06f931e9615b1899820b1b52f5721cf
194 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, directing users to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=best+free+pdf+reader+app+ios'. This suggests a social engineering attempt to trick users into downloading a PDF reader, likely to facilitate further malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify domains, while some are marked benign, indicates a link farm strategy to improve SEO for malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=best+free+pdf+reader+app+ios In PDF document text
    • http://files.islammuslimcyprus.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398231/notenobikezelex_dojepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nicholasluciusart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814043/sirapalogewejedipega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kholabakso.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775556/7497996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cashfromtreasures.net/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814674/tixosifaligek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0434/7222/4421/files/mosigefezobobefonebulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7620/6240/files/wipepavosivavateguzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0304/4263/files/60646560525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/24729716950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9434/files/85704475331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6741/6488/files/losuguwitafomolujufukebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4047/9131/files/free_online_marathi_books_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7822/1973/files/msi_super_charger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0346/9206/files/38839208790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0665/5642/files/jigavelofovisibosixumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1806/7876/files/pufadulofosuxegofomope.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_off00011504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11504 2008 bytes
SHA-256: af01d0cadf3d4bf1b70f44f3d06c316107488775db7d88ab7268a46f5b6de70e
font_01_sfnt_off00011e4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4A 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 1f3aa99420d8d2504dcc01cba5648fdb0f742f609398bf9f422b20e6882f5a14
font_02_sfnt_off00012f8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F8B 15672 bytes
SHA-256: 7aa74d8e4ab4a6a50b20dc47ae807cbfea2f6fb039a021f84a46c8c469e04de6