Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9ed6d1bbea9b977…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 03:41:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 733075b4ef903ed49ad967f23d298968 SHA-1: dbc8605e77fed7b8b49f51eb3b76846fe177c1e8 SHA-256: e9ed6d1bbea9b9775bbc60f9394220f4d5925af0d91bee2565ff6e8a29dc3003
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, characteristic of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=wonderwall+guitar+pdf'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'wonderwall guitar pdf'. The presence of numerous PDF links and the malicious redirector strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

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=wonderwall+guitar+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ashagarrattmakeupartistry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740563/ranoguvupak-zejiluwefuwe-nokowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rhondastruminger.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071076/1562942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.russellwedwards.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775825/jetizowomodowase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jesus5.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163705/ruzusevafefuza_zasamaxavufa.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/1/0439/3458/0891/files/fuvinarumobow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/82859125889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9601/3990/files/80447765434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4344/5141/files/novutibilijojewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8593/0402/files/remexevutikanomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3513/1046/files/dulenaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6064/8343/files/64362018517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1910/6461/files/asvab_paragraph_comprehension_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0874/3835/files/wayside_school_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96626323422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7831/2355/files/62414820972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/embed_in_google_sheets.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_off00005b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B9D 5136 bytes
SHA-256: bfb9db2eb715c65fe95fb4a2be3f5345466a039d7701942a626b8dfb6bc769d7
font_01_sfnt_off00006d44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D44 13764 bytes
SHA-256: 5f6d0e799f946e6185a48a9158b78edc0b416bec887d9cb01c789baffff5a87a