Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edf4b54dfda0859a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 02:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 764ef3d0e7a777230789282da934182b SHA-1: eac468f6528e0456305483c8239c86a11dd4c810 SHA-256: edf4b54dfda0859ab3f8f18f28619db26d28556ace5ad8d646dc8b962dca31cf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at traff.cc. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=broaden+and+build+theory+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.andrewrstjames.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406811/kuletejivusaxun-roxubiwigujaso-zojizogegapo-gamiwozefonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vitriol3d.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969265/tuseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.boardroomdevelopment.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776590/xudowapisinelidiruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.angelageddes.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/koxarinin_rerawasivaxipa_terilowij.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/1/0448/7512/0807/files/canciones_para_guitarra_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1421/8143/files/ruvujipetubavineforikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6257/4750/files/bozexiboxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75901524911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gaxedisurerikemamezawapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5225/3863/files/welidomubuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3937/0909/files/baeyer_villiger_reaction_mechanism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6042/8962/files/rojogudanuwapodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2775/1321/files/regulation_of_cholesterol_synthesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6280/4136/files/differential_amplifier_transistor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0658/1147/files/92388107369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9649/0655/files/engineering_drawing_lessons.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000088c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88C9 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 5a510e31c9b0aa196053d21d278b23d70d16c0f40695cd303a68e260a4564490
font_01_sfnt_off00009a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A98 10116 bytes
SHA-256: aaa87de4d2f2df84eb0481d304537dc0447b6e2c2e3f0964854262ca0311ca6a

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