Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb4d62b1d3277059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 22:23:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 915989abe3dc1bd39293d2b734735abc SHA-1: e635148a0649ee9138e105f9b6eea13cbe96d9c9 SHA-256: fb4d62b1d327705929b19252e3b6bcc09b52232d2cff6127475df2e2771ed6c9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=yii2+tutorial+pdf+download'. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'yii2 tutorial pdf download' and the URLs, suggesting a lure to download malicious content or be redirected to a phishing site. 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=yii2+tutorial+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.flxcalendar.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739328/lenenujeno-xanurijezexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.juniatacountytroutclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637362/4272173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zenyasastudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858661/kesajazetaleduned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijibave.friendsoftosadi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738779/kanuk.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/1/0437/2824/0794/files/history_capsule_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9799/5941/files/xirituzedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0371/5481/files/vugalusumiwesaxujora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/86526592296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7614/8638/files/75931473935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8174/1976/files/14727642032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/7309/8143/files/what_is_vz_navigator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/mil_std_810e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0276/4184/files/nitenune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9993/9235/files/30084425421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3882/4858/files/github_commands_cheat_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9712/9109/files/lupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1266/1152/files/nabafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8364/5599/files/1688217149.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_off00008a91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A91 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 3270cee7f9ccc6e354dfdda5aba950d2afa45ce787335881af69181e19e8288f
font_01_sfnt_off00009be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BE0 15988 bytes
SHA-256: feb1fd36aacf3561d030a6f71890dfc58b05e0cc43c36769ff6f2f046b5122e1