Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7fbe3a46feb5e50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 11:39:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1482a4c09db8d443e07438aa4a55986 SHA-1: b922ef6899cb99deec634b0013e241a64e535d4e SHA-256: e7fbe3a46feb5e5058d71969c1c2ab11d3867d0c7c38d471db8716240d6e7a69
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 ttraff.com. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to other PDFs hosted on various domains, including shopify.com and custom domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDF files, reinforcing the lure. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via the ttraff.com redirector.

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=bracket+chop+kiss+instrumental In PDF document text
    • http://files.csardasedmonton.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858791/wisomenumezeburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alessandrasulpy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874403/jiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dikaios-legal.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775025/wedubol-povidukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumet.my-lhd.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/f54d2b7947ed73a.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/1/0450/1346/7286/files/angle_addition_postulate_proofs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/wadapizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84113106953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6388/5472/files/waterfall_butterfly_live_wallpaper_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7827/1651/files/mivitanuvegowos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2549/7250/files/23562495976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/tunemobie_spotify_music_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6152/6179/files/validity_and_reliability_in_research.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2766/0951/files/nowafuxadidekesabapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0083/9842/files/chpn_online_study_guide.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4813 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 893193f5b7099b3b0df72a2342b1a57c2ba9b7e0584b2e56cc3e521a82d2abf4
font_01_sfnt_off000059dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59DC 9920 bytes
SHA-256: 3b2982699a8adf0fc0d408336e693c3298bc1737e337f9e47ac02feb120f18e7

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