Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce620e770c652755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 18:43:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 857eecdb9c0c8b5e051450efba51b2ca SHA-1: 2024bfc7cc0f095c8fa2c45720b289fe82122796 SHA-256: ce620e770c6527557d7babef88bbe483e20926e3f77d5614565a2cf70da8eaa1
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=westworld+1973+imdb+parents+guide'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and another link to a Shopify domain. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.com/pify?keyword=westworld+1973+imdb+parents+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.roundbedoasis.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606133/7813707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madukiso.wattssashiko.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380729/1211588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girazigi.45thparallelhemp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453870/dojitinururitevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hulstproperties.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814682/7856104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rumun.privatecounsellingandmediation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/6f575.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/1/0438/7930/1275/files/chris_rock_bigger_and_blacker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/17721531589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3390/1726/files/33740609416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3220/4696/files/19785018750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7835/9967/files/70687608320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6090/1528/files/unspeakable_acts_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6379/5096/files/pebuwanarafowegakixulere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8206/3777/files/87101200846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7714/7547/files/jar_of_hearts_piano_solo_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1789/6089/files/82723381249.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_off00006f1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F1C 5976 bytes
SHA-256: 614c4ae260f2f8bd62e35606960f8f57485880eedf41985be1a66682cab6848b
font_01_sfnt_off00008370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8370 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 27182b3f2b724e6cf798454c5a68d807d89c52b2c37b889df3cb3b38979adc1e