Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e906107eaf7d9f34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 22:41:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b435dee09bb7b5c629f9ca8d21557cd9 SHA-1: 915c1a1d88519a84b95afb42cb7cc4e6b3ccd46a SHA-256: e906107eaf7d9f34d9986e74ebc74b04b076136ea4c67bdbc1a5b7ead02acf4f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=catholic+bible+study+guide+book, which likely serves as a lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a 'Catholic bible study guide book' and links to various PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a content-luring tactic. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=catholic+bible+study+guide+book In PDF document text
    • http://files.ell-ren.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/6257853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sparklycharkaleephronesis.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437633/5484042.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/1/0434/8765/8141/files/tijatogexegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9526/1333/files/59617133212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3924/3943/files/dedunijewijumazajisifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8896/0933/files/tobazugedazizudetete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5013/files/paredizagikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8800/2710/files/pikuposodapajutalenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4900/0864/files/pdf_sociologia_general.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6143/5813/files/bamurepotolukogiwefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1263/7351/files/cartilage_types.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7392/9378/files/aleister_crowley_o_livro_da_lei.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0825/files/denege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2178/6521/files/16402263603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9569/4239/files/solicitud_de_credencial_biblioteca_vasconcelos.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_off000074ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74EA 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 1dcaf3668446438e24708d4ce65f06f433cb9855e091004ad0fe3f2cdc768de9
font_01_sfnt_off000086f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86F2 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 86d2be4cba99b57beed941f3d05d91c5d2a5683118a009c8e5e397be83c9cc72