Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faedee37330dc973…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-07-31 23:26:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a6153e9dd078c8209062250ee09c9adc SHA-1: a736ca6584c24e93febc9d8e3ede18aa1092f11f SHA-256: faedee37330dc973482df3e1031db6c662091f5134edfbb2f07e688fcdcf8261
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=leetcode+reverse+linked+list'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, containing numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=leetcode+reverse+linked+list In PDF document text
    • http://files.ninjamagik.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874629/jatupisejumelovavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soudersthirdgrade.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856602/5ec6a7e4e88c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fvmediacenter.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695582/2955529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.liztatecanrelate.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398333/6bb181ec65b6.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/1/0433/4521/5656/files/32234391732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9324/5590/files/28998518717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/buzemadezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/wavapuloxesuwemasuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4434/6792/files/vorukuxetowenupumorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6256/5795/files/55233388342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0144/files/petebozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/xuzebasaraxutibetiguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0814/8127/files/24207944431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4571/5109/files/nafovekizazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9371/2286/files/bokakasipodefidana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5680/8607/files/29533739626.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D7 4788 bytes
SHA-256: dea657b5ec3b38913303662e59d46b52ed7c50440fe13f2af72d623bba6f1ff6
font_01_sfnt_off00007537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7537 14804 bytes
SHA-256: 702e9066fc02025fc041c9f35847041c0c0e8023fd301d94b69e2571a8747223
font_02_sfnt_off0000a353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA353 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 9559dd1bd908241551916101fda3d445a26f5c4b506a1423f23393456f9d5940