Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e366b5c287181349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 12:39:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 683d9811cad5e19bc6fef5c79e2e64f8 SHA-1: a17f98067370b39279f0c3545f71a9e7bb9bd845 SHA-256: e366b5c287181349870162f32faf0108a591293d21e1b92732d054f255aba07e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=streamline+english+directions+pdf'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or social engineering campaign designed to trick users into clicking through to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. The presence of a link farm heuristic further suggests a malicious intent to distribute links.

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.cc/pify?keyword=streamline+english+directions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jajerap.hanadiphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/a7de3df0e4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.2d3dsouth.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681877/c914f7efef4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emiliafaro.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164129/9241430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nutrition-girl.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695755/faborajo-vokosusobif-wofapexal.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/1/0429/7264/3491/files/31526263069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7237/3411/files/40179791734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2157/2008/files/givafajuvatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2422/0321/files/tiwupinimito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4496/9367/files/approach_to_oliguria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6853/7497/files/witelopitikanukokadabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6437/8022/files/convert_number_to_date_in_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1402/8444/files/weed_firm_replanted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6451/5994/files/18658098608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4309/4677/files/jirivofavatosukulelizifik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0364/9954/files/49539789794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zosogorimojafi.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001887d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1887D 5672 bytes
SHA-256: 667e778503b5f98cb3cf74736f952245a90a77220b649968e9ccd86a4d063952
font_01_sfnt_off00019b8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B8B 19956 bytes
SHA-256: 0c74d2c2937c267e5ab3cd479c67cf8ccb113aa03cf7eabb564ef3e911b9c3cb
font_02_sfnt_off0001d2b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D2B0 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 43e84046d57c5d8edad47de9228ce36feb53c5e515436c294a71041590f3a3a6