Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4ae5bcdb604ed95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 22:29:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 84ba04ff5fa96f0fef1ebad2c5f3ac09 SHA-1: 74624d6622557216b53358a4ca9b856597752682 SHA-256: e4ae5bcdb604ed95a4b14f8b38053a699950dbae53636d5023d316e59a6cf7cd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com). The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the same URL as the primary malicious link, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm, indicating a coordinated effort to drive traffic to potentially harmful destinations.

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=sch%25C3%25A9ma+appareil+g%25C3%25A9nital+f%25C3%25A9minin+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.covingtonnazarene.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398097/lajelili_kofateboxasub_xunovu_kubovipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.midwestfirehydrant.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740291/fowigo_ribasusugina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuzipa.onlytheessentialsshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303195/vopuravoz_dazenimeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagifefi.dhaynesart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/1dd72ca0.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/1/0430/5711/9386/files/46697376796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6543/0431/files/4th_industrial_revolution_in_construction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8006/4936/files/18974990516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7846/7222/files/marabetuwasefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9848/6424/files/gijufixemumozarovibamapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6006/0567/files/463754761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1126/5944/files/4046502918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/pelovako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4676/2656/files/91936231555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7617/2441/files/materialismo_dialectico_libro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0458/3318/files/60781539137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6690/files/28489743504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8628/9832/files/noise_risk_assessment_report.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_off00006d06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D06 5636 bytes
SHA-256: 680f0c97619f5ca10dc66fe58d0eed5f694232464cf88889ffef942e08a4af40
font_01_sfnt_off00007fbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FBC 12376 bytes
SHA-256: a560bc1587884fbe718cf0c109e812954316d67815b45f1f6758cb51181ec948