Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6a1be72d4a47c9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a16c990e79563010df8a58eedde102e4 SHA-1: 44c9c7dc6ae10e7ad0932c2e1b030c6bae13f371 SHA-256: e6a1be72d4a47c9b5d71c2d392341990b796fb1313e0c5eab86465cd56dab083
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, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blank+venn+diagram+template+microsoft+word', is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to benign Shopify domains, but the primary malicious redirector is the key indicator. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=blank+venn+diagram+template+microsoft+word In PDF document text
    • http://files.northernillinoispainting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636764/xasuritiw-gugibugove-walesalo-papogizojizidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vupar.rbcrowtherco.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/jamekazowaweb_mibevozileb_roxuwumitifuzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thepaulbr.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680949/1370533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wubiv.alexandriatalley.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/tejexexetanonot_lomudi_lobokojoxo_vatexiwes.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/1/0435/0610/6528/files/therapeutic_classification_of_drugs_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3771/9717/files/check_your_aviation_english_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9861/2636/files/systematics_of_living_organisms_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7875/4199/files/49171633138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9693/2505/files/pdf_the_new_oxford_annotated_bible_with_apocrypha_new_revised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0423/files/vonodalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/4576/6556/files/valentine_s_day_esl_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8148/9829/files/home_automation_using_arduino_and_bluetooth_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6700/7386/files/valkyria_chronicles_4_squad_stories_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/2416/3487/files/86179374394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0414/8382/files/xozebebigepizopofezuvale.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_off0000650b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x650B 5740 bytes
SHA-256: f048d1ba4042c9be8aa560be27a9fd6376494cb47afb4fe8b2d4838ffd2ac1ba
font_01_sfnt_off00007891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7891 9920 bytes
SHA-256: f07229c0629e7beca12e2290df9a02ce3af3df7c604f57467ea020b89cfa1616