Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2c03ef74b9f4327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 12:23:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9428b0919d0ecaafb247f8055d37fbe5 SHA-1: 0ea7037fc604314e02c97e940dae7cdce630858a SHA-256: e2c03ef74b9f4327adcebf1f6d669f3acb304000e3d207d84141e6b2bb62336d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=mechanical+engineering+projects+for+high+school+students+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure by posing as educational content. The presence of many links, including benign ones hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking and distribute malicious traffic. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=mechanical+engineering+projects+for+high+school+students+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.burkega.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739173/kikone_zodijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.butterflybirths.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814855/ravekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mikevaproduction.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696112/8026498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nraimvang.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740836/897e6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reynard.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454373/lusumejikan.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/1/0437/7044/5973/files/nudefusezubaserosagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5076/1377/files/54482172358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1966/4540/files/one_way_anova_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9732/5732/files/56175673556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/canon_8800f_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9295/9642/files/96050308308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/1775/8888/files/avengers_infinity_war_2_comic_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/fonurereraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0722/1661/files/dynamic_business_law_kubasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7884/files/personal_anecdote_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7378/1411/files/statistical_quality_control_by_m_mahajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2955/7411/files/warfarin_dosing_nomogram.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_off00006555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6555 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 244676aaef253270bd4d84c59f8082e05aa772f89054e60a3d4a6592dc26daa4
font_01_sfnt_off00007797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7797 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 9eea455882347804081b3d28244342fbc12e0e9ae4199a7290f6c607fc7226a7
font_02_sfnt_off00009a86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A86 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f