Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e19d413ff44ccdc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8fee3304f389f2d94fe455c8bb628147 SHA-1: b89507c77c8bfbf10041beb8d9df999842cda8cc SHA-256: e19d413ff44ccdc51bb7387667453fd6175f75a6de7c2758e376ca1d3cbd6759
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.001 Malicious Link T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain. The document body and heuristics indicate a social engineering lure to install a browser extension or update, which is a common method for credential theft or malware installation. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=lit+answers+solutions.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=lit+answers+solutions In PDF document text
    • http://files.teenstutorteens.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/gefalolajo_zifejapifem_femijof_texoxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ariel4you.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453109/megafid-zuzabijakakozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flexgridtech.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070009/rupoxamofafuruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.winwithwill.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776726/kenumodofedatorob.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/taselalodomojobuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2126/0184/files/33672395763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wesuwalaloluxafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8799/0688/files/35089103134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1140/0102/files/dupowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/12498781089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3640/2079/files/69061081851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4379/0760/files/fenner_make_pin_bush_coupling_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4166/0826/files/brigandine_grand_edition_character_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9255/7467/files/zewanobalimalibamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8486/3893/files/16681398447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1724/files/18649145756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6666/1800/files/xipedajikidavowoxalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8138/4604/files/29030170200.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_off00005c41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C41 4712 bytes
SHA-256: 11906563cd96f743eca7da72251ebe113d6708e71fe24150fde77c5bb1c6426e
font_01_sfnt_off00006c61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C61 9976 bytes
SHA-256: d4bd6d99e95090ac29b908c74a3ca0b71d0425d376039256d626f56686977046