Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e40f9a234906eb1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 74433bfe6f7894a3e5735e6ee2d56202 SHA-1: 756800698c178958a3fabc4d81c3a392830a6904 SHA-256: e40f9a234906eb1a82388a21db7bc1574b55da6c724103f2e097ab67f31569a8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link disguised as a free textbook download, which is a common social engineering tactic. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=calculus+11th+edition+larson+and+edwards+free+pdf', redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content, as flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious redirector link.

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=calculus+11th+edition+larson+and+edwards+free+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.keyvisioncoaching.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814250/dinunigudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mafapol.butterflybondage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483200/7850687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ontheroadarizona.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813526/lazomaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.olddominionhoundsponyclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438226/vowejavofe_ruvewo_gureguxelila_robodegupazog.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/juzopuzenafososokazulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0327/3628/files/16933657589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4964/7261/files/22381581296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8406/9526/files/particle_swarm_optimization_algorithm_matlab_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7327/4018/files/68403522105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4040/6684/files/bixoxifonobenija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/gilobigazitifemadekavemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8487/files/scorpions_big_city_nights.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5124/5987/files/nenerakipiwuxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1646/1211/files/greater_than_less_than_equal_to_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8213/0332/files/degikozonizujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8121/1810/files/gonogupodajelozizokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6693/1862/files/broiler_production_book.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_off0000eb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9C 5292 bytes
SHA-256: f5c258fcd88531a5965304a51bf1834b89c9bc6e5a4a02d70dd934490fc6f923
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA4 14924 bytes
SHA-256: 45b2ab461900f078cdc776b8807ebe67d18a363ebee42de4acc90b39e3afd54a
font_02_sfnt_off00012c23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C23 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378