Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec141f346f23ee84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:22:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 022d4c27537776504fe7823a4c7b68a2 SHA-1: cb857073a83e76372f8c6104c2e63105cf9515d7 SHA-256: ec141f346f23ee847315ffa29b5265267e44c4b40e06a91b76203bcfe01c19d8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure for a 'magazine design template pdf'. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=magazine+design+template+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to further malicious content.

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=magazine+design+template+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gumokesi.sherryssantas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/4416453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eelasor.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381540/xuguzamalavij_pakosawinodo_vuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cococochran.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683173/gizotebujedavitokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.krgriffiths.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874129/96dffd9.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/1/0433/7798/3653/files/fawelosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8973/files/defobezirepitelepufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4217/7181/files/mepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/23606352433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1465/8980/files/online_game_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5788/0996/files/cal_poly_campus_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6124/files/texojegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0862/9663/files/heat_controller_inc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3042/files/gary_moore_parisienne_walkways.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1278/4277/files/tapurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5419/3047/files/26540573719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4636/2527/files/dilaberukomolapagefuzodi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7195 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 0ad3b4abb5d34a059d5dfbeaf472b124ae24dba606926c13704f46d8495a017d
font_01_sfnt_off000083b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83B2 2268 bytes
SHA-256: 8770a9d16f6ec8ed1e04f7f31595c1fd3834ff76ff6f55291086ab87d6d749e8
font_02_sfnt_off00008dc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DC4 13484 bytes
SHA-256: d0750c9371d76e8a2b17b25fcffba4161afd7b6d7b1d5b994f7939563b2beda6