Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0d4d977bd3dd3a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6ebfb6389b1fcf2a09649fc337e6380 SHA-1: 6fd6cf633b9921598c134b49414999cb5acce4ce SHA-256: e0d4d977bd3dd3a3607f98bf09b747aa70f4504e7c0a285633e5536f8782cd3e
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 pointing to ttraff.com. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for a PDF download. The primary attack vector is likely a phishing attempt to redirect users to 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.com/pify?keyword=brahmacharya+hech+jivan+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.sdconference.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380279/tirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rickysaputrayoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814682/310194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.douglasmullerdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857818/605863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jordonministries.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682585/wezibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9094/3902/files/data_analysis_in_research_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4678/9542/files/laxitifosawuboseralikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6918/files/difference_between_stratified_and_cluster.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1087/5815/files/tuzamedeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6566/1845/files/desmos_quadratic_regression.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6244/1622/files/advocateship_mcq_model_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3377/1688/files/gigovusemazopata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3692/6374/files/sowedokebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2920/8992/files/voltage_regulator_ic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6499/9590/files/85490674543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9585/0150/files/statistical_inference_problems_and_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7632/8355/files/25306545945.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_off0000476a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x476A 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae5a37f8d1fb81b9cb3d47135ff834a1e732f6ba1d066879e98d3d4743878d0
font_01_sfnt_off00005a6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A6B 9988 bytes
SHA-256: e034ab00cddbf1f16e9c6d3503546883a2c2931277ce73a430b759c05c82fb53
font_02_sfnt_off00007cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CDE 7328 bytes
SHA-256: 7f4086ddb59484f0bf552328234870b60e67a20ec0fbc499447384949f0b9159