Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2e1e1180bf7deda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 12:49:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54d44c61662d3f3261f1813f46f232d4 SHA-1: cccdee9b6c5a388771105d15097511ee3885b0dd SHA-256: f2e1e1180bf7dedadb69da055434e2037d1a0f5369332f280db96542ae48049d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=windows+8.+1+pro+keys+2015'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, further supporting the 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=windows+8.+1+pro+keys+2015 In PDF document text
    • http://files.jsh401k.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438330/ladazedegatogi-numajad-fesafe-lufate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.russellitup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775921/jiwodafowot_satuz_jugejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arsenicmedia.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815791/delun_netajak_bapedi_zinunugojokovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nintaiinvestments.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872199/d27958bf2.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/1/0432/9462/1862/files/83820525196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6987/5111/files/puleruwixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/35209966956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2870/1603/files/magigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8624/2209/files/vokotedozijusuvebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5241/6672/files/23354257227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/372842929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9114/0512/files/fibupofaxofitasomokopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6010/files/37442049539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6241/9863/files/xuvopedotutupodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6532/7262/files/sujarewukugepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6837/2632/files/10604146473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1126/7990/files/dokerixogiroxezex.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
🗂 Part of campaign: jsh401k.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000082d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82D1 5368 bytes
SHA-256: ef2ad5f4ba33f97b60ebca72b68b21d4a4151acda4ed248de09872c66980ebaa
font_01_sfnt_off00009541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9541 10592 bytes
SHA-256: b136fb55710426f408ba4314b1be69cc2adff6b58135f468d7e441acaa134792
font_02_sfnt_off0000b958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB958 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333