Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd5181cb9a8d1a3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 12:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4f47b6cbfbc1977e4c1a472a38dfacd8 SHA-1: cd93a89ed62f514fc487afc809207420bc9e8f05 SHA-256: dd5181cb9a8d1a3d4e60206dcf5d1f024998517311d91b00310f9b7b611bded1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=history+of+crime+fiction+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as a link to a PDF about the history of crime fiction. The file also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a network of seemingly benign documents. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive document title and a malicious redirect link.

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=history+of+crime+fiction+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fleurdelys-club.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740545/bakimobo_nuzivuwekopike_gadifuru_ruporolagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bethanykris.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712358/puxixiwemufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.darrinlangbienphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637271/fijurotubavavaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.melissabowmanward9.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/9ef7a28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipugefe.princessworthdyingfor.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/dajisixuzimij.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/1/0438/8900/0616/files/causes_of_deforestation_in_uganda_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0200/2597/files/24424337637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0716/4064/files/36882720808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6556/files/beginner_workout_program.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2503/8498/files/67092230609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7400/9753/files/income_certificate_form_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3264/files/nexuzaputezolujadulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2208/8354/files/64422325748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5577/0776/files/newspaper_activities_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6232/8472/files/28177389182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9500/7137/files/disijog.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_off00009993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9993 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 75d2cc1aa5b6b065e863a620d3ad47602d4c1d100209fa0b0b854ffcdaef8b0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000aaf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAF7 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 34e43b1de334edf87c1c3dea9736d592f9785628190ed64e0091d1580cdda42e