Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e919d04ee579fb21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 00:26:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bedba665e62f38b90a964e25f6609d30 SHA-1: a0ffd3cb026ec1e526cfb6844ac40d275630910e SHA-256: e919d04ee579fb217f88198b4a0594798148c5b752165d9e8ccc8d8232681e74
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 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=verizon+fios+cancel'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the primary intent is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or a scam.

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=verizon+fios+cancel In PDF document text
    • http://files.jmbmoldings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408117/79309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alexandremiller.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680974/bidowaxiju-fodumovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allthethingsshesaid.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969577/tanebesi_depozasajevami_liraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wellnessrevolutionstudio.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409498/9913576.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/1/0434/2821/6983/files/11354302466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/mujibira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/ruxiwigujunoxowigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6828/3287/files/e5_8d_a1_e6_96_b90._975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3884/2779/files/87871665891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4858/2820/files/ge_artic_refrigerator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5649/6791/files/57504940871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8940/2779/files/11286803963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8953/4869/files/topotexevirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1047/3633/files/fewefogapefatopi.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_off00006148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6148 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 5e59d9c27051215224b0910669f9efd8bc7eed9b1427054114b9ffc74408a7b7
font_01_sfnt_off00007208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7208 10820 bytes
SHA-256: a31ee4b3209c73ac3a25b6f4717e5556e5cb55a23ffa41addf30f3a44e336fbe