Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f438198a838a4197…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 08:07:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 539b8351669ae8279f306336f18ae2b7 SHA-1: a6301ee47cc9c384b34c0dfcf66ae40d1cc99140 SHA-256: f438198a838a4197b50ec1fa11a95040ccaad16e1bb4e23d526b8393c9181245
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that the link https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=c%252F+al+format+decimal is part of known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests the document is designed to host numerous external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The document body contains garbled text and the URL that triggered the redirector, reinforcing 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.cc/pify?keyword=c%252F+al+format+decimal In PDF document text
    • http://files.aampmuseum.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871597/2552e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.englishmountainlabradors.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606392/ritabuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maisonsouthernfrance.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874575/30855f0ab6447e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mefegevow.insidesportsclinic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380397/6873435.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/1/0435/0767/9387/files/wizuvinigefatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8945/1425/files/rirawujapine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lunizededalusabunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/momiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6920/1832/files/38317474288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26450106566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9128/files/30777144363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2222/8379/files/25500953050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2244/9820/files/jixud.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_off000051df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51DF 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 1467fe92a8a1230aa6c0661140b7efd2b8d861bc0eceefb9a854039a78f5e224
font_01_sfnt_off00006291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6291 13544 bytes
SHA-256: 9672013fd8609d1c02865b5c29082a59cd6e6b37e365408f70d342d759506367

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