Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e37e55c19531d058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 13:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c9fb4cbc4d980f9809aa951c859f84cb SHA-1: 683d9b0e0bb2c8b47776c35ec5d24be7f6879dd1 SHA-256: e37e55c19531d0582c287275428e8fd706c1a86736ddb38826ac8ee11653747f
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=budget+worksheet+printable+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a 'budget worksheet printable pdf'. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content broadly. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=budget+worksheet+printable+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.healthgeography.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740589/04993433284466d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vinoandvernici.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739212/6162816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.muttsnmischief.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411542/numuwavizuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ieperiostudyclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069764/zomoluwel.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/1/0429/2627/6774/files/sinusoidal_oscillators.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9316/8023/files/aids_causes_symptoms_treatment_and_prevention.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8980/files/dekalabale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5697/1432/files/xubemabukukuvedunuretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0306/0128/files/spc_manual_aiag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6193/5261/files/59174056445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3464/8474/files/prebles_artforms_12th_edition_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3615/files/canon_eos_30d_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8325/9301/files/sanomopurexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0015/8632/files/74995357944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9558/8005/files/jitazuvezejuzubararibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7309/3288/files/86387431908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1208/8231/files/29449644191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0683/5358/files/algoritmos_geneticos.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_off000065c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C3 5648 bytes
SHA-256: 36e354c49a32619965a58e7d08d60854d802e1a6be6d285a1db9795671c3af4e
font_01_sfnt_off000078fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78FE 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 9403609251828085023cb617b2eb28bca407d2cdda920057107fa3b3d73e1377