Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e278e37d9aba4a26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c368e6404d96a87fa2d97db7851dd689 SHA-1: c8e3f64b54f4dd9cb98af17f46e923a2834732f0 SHA-256: e278e37d9aba4a26a5d0b9364bb896647d9bda56c622eeeb79abdfc9584fc8ed
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a specific URL pointing to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a bug report. The primary heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link, and the ML classifier strongly supports a malicious classification. The embedded URL is reconstructed as 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bug+report+redmi+note+4', which is likely intended to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=bug+report+redmi+note+4 In PDF document text
    • http://files.thesoulfulbirth.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/8380944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dynamicjourneystravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453998/kesexibid-nadodud-rugigofo-mubudikidagiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joachimkoops.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682627/6189989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spencersnygg.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775465/pajigubov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0623/8613/files/87585455838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2829/7381/files/jisixenugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9909/1098/files/how_to_find_least_count_of_spectrometer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9243/4343/files/82051954231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6484/2657/files/30851262488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6014/9910/files/dapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5393/0901/files/behavioral_finance_psychology_decision_making_and_markets_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8644/4699/files/how_to_merge_files_on_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7469/8902/files/lorikazevesofowowowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/telisupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0334/7098/files/97950737208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6428/7651/files/budgeting_tools.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_off0000adc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADC5 4876 bytes
SHA-256: 404182aa2178cbd483a2fdbbc64d186ae30f8ac51c35f15ac576eaf3e636af8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000be46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE46 10040 bytes
SHA-256: d50953dc81ea7c1da564b9f7ba5bdf59f9d062cde5e3678b4bd3af05f15148c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE071 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361