Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0d9c433243f9175…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 517fa086d2668e20a8dc60c9ab435039 SHA-1: 4db73652a2af245c9fec07931f640467d3cf841a SHA-256: e0d9c433243f91756e52e4537fe8fb060fa306bb2fa4b0f76348147077510ccb
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=c+programming+with+arduino+warwick+pdf. This URL is likely used to lure the user to a malicious site, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the exact payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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=c+programming+with+arduino+warwick+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stevewestgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740256/pajibizitazuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.huningtonchase.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454916/4564040ccd88d5.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/1/0432/6657/2441/files/87771253265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30347825404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/totudesisatase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7924/files/comment_assembler_plusieurs_en_un_seul_sur_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6552/3862/files/bootstrap_4_template_free_dashboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9711/0168/files/xbox_one_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4549/files/27858220236.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_off000047a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47A4 5420 bytes
SHA-256: f18334dedc2e91a5eb943f84fc261ead26f9d3eeb59322e24a3df83e4d76956f
font_01_sfnt_off000059fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59FC 9716 bytes
SHA-256: a2a2c9c4c2ea344c30bb91e1316c16bbd55977deb2a34be7a356c2f40e7e7e47