Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea46d4b3cfe8d184…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 40da23b1b3582d42127b52f1ccd1145d SHA-1: 9f4d61900cfe3358d0c04ffb92d68bdb54020534 SHA-256: ea46d4b3cfe8d184651fb1a38c062b1b039ffdb8f9e4e1360d433301694682b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to its inclusion of a large number of external links, characteristic of a link farm. One critical heuristic flagged a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=mathematical+symbols+and+their+uses+pdf'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links, potentially leading to further compromise.

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=mathematical+symbols+and+their+uses+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ballmania.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437655/kakoxoxafin_buwopodikeku_jitinuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gedim.hapia2013.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/xitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muwofivok.tuskegeebuildersacademy.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/dobuvoxovabipijeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8929/7568/files/cvc_words_activities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9945/5642/files/56530763306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0999/1075/files/fitowiwiwubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3519/6566/files/alien_shooter_hack_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/78947416124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0845/6865/files/the_bodybuilder_s_nutrition_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3981/files/larinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3623/7206/files/9698527209.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60EE 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 1c55ed30713f2c4f817b30ab412e4c1819c62f3dbf1f3e8002422fead6802c26
font_01_sfnt_off0000738a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x738A 19684 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee0512ee455dafafdfbd802db20c0ea7ceacdb3b143e92bcc7045d80237cc32
font_02_sfnt_off0000b164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB164 18036 bytes
SHA-256: ccef3f1581938edc84962fe8c147767fb8b22b76d4edd2e259c478dcdc17a9b6
font_03_sfnt_off0000cda6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f