Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6c9a1deccce8434…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:39:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a66575077c57f3d05d01b58f4668c0ea SHA-1: 18b70139023b188182e99cba058f2ef5a3d45a35 SHA-256: f6c9a1deccce84349a3c7c2570c7d300121468d8e7e83fd54ca91221982c3dd6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=crystal+reed+age'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be corrupted or heavily encoded, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the link farm strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=crystal+reed+age In PDF document text
    • http://files.theordernj.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739405/libudutolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amgilmorefineart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483214/d2dfb20a4d2d86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarfa.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071082/4035939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lovethelordfirstministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606128/c86f4a7.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/1/0433/5802/7928/files/7785881812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7572/1633/files/41163433301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4183/3635/files/96935217022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9007/4005/files/xexope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1943/6185/files/rujudewovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/16529797215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7720/6165/files/smiley_face_copy_and_paste.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9524/4452/files/xafuxitivunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9683/4212/files/zudojodusikapiwakejujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0763/1779/files/68308569354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6352/5026/files/rupefip.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000797d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x797D 5000 bytes
SHA-256: 6d573d0e38826bf83fa75569d8e95f8777a159beb08eed951c23122cbb6f2218
font_01_sfnt_off00008a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A91 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 017783c1ea278b4f48b9683825e200746b007d6c8d110f2d37cd784f60b81bc5