Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea4051ebc56033ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 17:29:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4d74d574612690c091713bdef9015787 SHA-1: 3c77c7198110cfaccc03d839b09cd542f382c614 SHA-256: ea4051ebc56033ce177018bc4136b2a6c012ae99faed4b2aaa52a557e198438d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. This indicates a likely SEO manipulation or link farm attack pattern. The document body itself is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=capitales+de+tous+les+pays+du+monde+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.edmonsonvoice.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482884/9494188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miltonwildcatfootball.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438639/buzosaloxakak-vesalamawopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.skinstudiobymegan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775200/salomewagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cardifun.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969291/70bed08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.familyrecoverysolutions.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453843/2921867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fr.db-city.com/Pays--CapitaleIn 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/1/0434/0819/5738/files/xovepebetuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2670/2758/files/29573616551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3899/files/muvitexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5580/7654/files/17065069606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4695/9261/files/wiz_khalifa_most_of_us_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8776/4387/files/head_first_design_patterns_c_pdf_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6845/files/55819667870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7538/7043/files/pepajubovamime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6562/9077/files/ff8_weapons_monthly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/44368745507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1024/4256/files/89317467740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5458/files/fipuvipewoxapolabotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5816/files/zabukosapijupila.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_off00007172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7172 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 90a3d99ed4f7fc439bb67dd28ff59bf0b432d035aa3f24f18ddc524b8604ec32
font_01_sfnt_off000082c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82C1 15460 bytes
SHA-256: e7d5cbef682b78eeecc95ad0ac91b2822d00a15a34d96ec34455d48969e1ab97