Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4498665ad430a8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7b7604a6dfbcd0fe8f9df90680dec334 SHA-1: a037106d0ee65ea30571eef4b25b8e3584957329 SHA-256: d4498665ad430a8dc26e455170e325abd1ab4e10c16b38e318db13a0d8663168
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the title 'Alfredo bosi literatura brasileira pdf' and references wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to download a PDF. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure via these embedded links.

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=alfredo+bosi+literatura+brasileira+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://turuteza.roundstoneponyshow.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453698/xodolivefupu-navawogubixeve-fuvizapofuginew-pizusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.surfergirl.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453431/fimutixojebipebepili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.headphonemusiclabel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437889/gidisuzivasajo.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/1/0433/6890/6906/files/tuvoleribigozoduvowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9885/6871/files/pabuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9997/1999/files/70931964852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4632/files/pisunubexovanigoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2100/9053/files/32331414007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7117/5846/files/9177261830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2670/2758/files/50331608213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/worakotesagonidegixugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1887/8117/files/25463543250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7515/7670/files/ishikawa_cause_and_effect_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9394/0629/files/lafututaronetoxuzotazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9461/4940/files/71884444230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6055/1070/files/69598330662.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_off00004ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ECB 5164 bytes
SHA-256: a1b5b5e4896dc3f287effd191eab0a7e2a3409aacf7fe8cc72d03d81a28eba9e
font_01_sfnt_off00006067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6067 10064 bytes
SHA-256: fc930536b854b00b9ef2905479545c3adf4e188451a9ccc7840bd73279e8c4bc