Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e407f5fdb9443fec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c11e94fc09b7fbe6a44caa1daffd2123 SHA-1: d3d12b2773c15f811ee43ef39957ec43d566213d SHA-256: e407f5fdb9443fecc14ac11ed3032cf07759c1a0eb4861bcc3413a1ce180f941
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=nfl+playoffs+2019+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous other embedded links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.ru/pify?keyword=nfl+playoffs+2019+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rmofparkdale498.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873717/318bb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remavevan.en.skandiaorgeln.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438304/besasuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://febadupi.literature2life.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637308/e5d19ab4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pkhillsassociation.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969607/jiwuwut.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/1/0435/4641/1162/files/industrial_microbiology_by_le_casida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4642/8059/files/vedotexipafegarowoxonez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2978/1918/files/36846865830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8874/7423/files/i_75_traffic_ky.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7097/9238/files/45284871643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2475/0504/files/zogodasisukarujetonojari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3847/4397/files/adam_driver_the_report_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6485/3408/files/avira_free_antivirus_for_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9851/4343/files/present_past_future_tense_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4795/2294/files/wibeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9929/0776/files/jugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2458/7672/files/salarupifazogasijetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0487/files/20907774326.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_off00006da8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DA8 4928 bytes
SHA-256: c985029438ad25fff8c6eb44e2f158a1ef9ece0eaad6486418a4c00b5d29f1ec
font_01_sfnt_off00007e73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E73 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 384e85ec6395e43be4928d54ef4f49585b8e284f6cb35193ebd66eba7aac6cef
font_02_sfnt_off0000a107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA107 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c