Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d74a7ccdb7187cd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 14:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 46b05d60913c8f655c93d4dee27c75ac SHA-1: c0e584f56c0c04998bb9b9f4e70d41489771a7e7 SHA-256: d74a7ccdb7187cd925526b781be79dff5a2bd116dbf4a6500f27833274344985
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One critical heuristic indicates these links point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pseudo+code+example'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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=pseudo+code+example In PDF document text
    • http://files.statebirdtogo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775108/80bb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.broadwaysilkens.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871535/392921b79b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.derekcovingtonsmith.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637498/6e43dbf5ad10.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xigidewepiwunabifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/24390977367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lojuxefututa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0812/3303/files/gopurevemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/tazusokirezupifigupuzefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4583/8234/files/67335798988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52665001447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2568/files/92602194779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/dibupibunulefuxuxibevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8462/8633/files/97344207714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/19395262282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4218/6150/files/39454659722.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006c71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C71 5192 bytes
SHA-256: afbed6e384c0beb8687639a3ee6b9c30b736741e4f25a8a4a656da75b6410131
font_01_sfnt_off00007e0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E0F 10288 bytes
SHA-256: e73f030138c2fac0edcf4f539107f3b68ef1806cf78e62087467566cca068d1d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA192 16292 bytes
SHA-256: a901af60c43a3d1d2c73faf17f59d23bf7f00f3eb95c840d7b65a6fc22ad04a4