Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e10e47b2d1e8fdf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 11:19:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 374139555ae1f869d4a77fe567283e00 SHA-1: de1c52d8839a6c96ae309afa0f9e450a4584a443 SHA-256: e10e47b2d1e8fdf4c8445d2e65423deb4e38e4e527ac016f7dc2f16a2f42155b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at `ttraff.cc`. The document also contains a lure suggesting the user copy/paste content into a shell, indicating a potential attempt to trick the user into executing commands. The primary malicious URL is `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=vmdk+to+vhdx+converter`, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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=vmdk+to+vhdx+converter In PDF document text
    • http://files.hellosquatch.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741556/4e22ecd63fef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dcimproper.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438453/7814778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bensvintagevillage.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856158/gamonurimiserez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wholenikolenutrition.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969820/xufudatawibepazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thealleghenyinstitute.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813054/4180539.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/1/0432/1037/5325/files/928517502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8688/9625/files/mojumesogitesifiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4858/2820/files/furuxupekapodebal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8714/8709/files/slice_vs_splice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1479/7981/files/97861369355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8473/2829/files/10482018316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/32061537738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1515/9458/files/45655367169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8005/5965/files/19194990663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nubizasijimowedemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1311/9905/files/51619563257.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_off00006a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A34 4916 bytes
SHA-256: 84e778927e5f388b9cf47de264cfef58ffeedea8070d8cdb2d10d3187b1489fa
font_01_sfnt_off00007ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AD2 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 71b7da1d441ffc3d587247c3bda234b28d39072bf8480c090864f59aa1fe7031