Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe8c3a8a83e4aaf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

155.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:59:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5031f782a0c95c70c045c38d05592d6f SHA-1: 8899bdfeaec592bbf74387c0c26abb27572357ad SHA-256: fe8c3a8a83e4aaf62d4b7add07922a028e295118c91fab53f69ba710f269a5bd
134 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.com/pify?keyword=oh+you%2527+re+approaching+me+copypasta'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to trick the user into visiting this malicious site. No scripts were extracted, and the file type is PDF, indicating a social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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=oh+you%2527+re+approaching+me+copypasta In PDF document text
    • http://files.savegoringgap.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379099/947e48916d4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mcjpgs.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969184/miwaranam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gerrardphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453896/kadedamitare-puwuzix.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/1/0431/3117/5063/files/96434778692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3362/files/71983491134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5575/2103/files/hd_avi_movies_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80170273674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2137/6410/files/dededebevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8673/files/5210582604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2308/8290/files/latizirixagiloregozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3161/6918/files/vidugavopopojubadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2821/0073/files/nerapusimobezaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6222/3263/files/viwajedawesoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8652/0224/files/75510937967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/niwaxesajikibulunetegidu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001feff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FEFF 11908 bytes
SHA-256: 35c135bf35f91fe861633eddc738c53a6cc63645fd63298a377b52bb01f5e016
font_01_sfnt_off00022622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22622 5480 bytes
SHA-256: d1e84c7506dd5acbb26c64e7b3ac0dafb790cc561062987c10eecd5504ef772c
font_02_sfnt_off000238a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x238A4 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 1d122ef8551cd6af05f878e6ee435d1466861b539e439132363c851fa4a4f317