Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0382d9426679608e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-27 16:47:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 635df8662bc88840f4a27963782f3085 SHA-1: f0a8d97813f1084628008f0e073f95e5895a6eba SHA-256: 0382d9426679608ea67527e84b1a011e400d6386ba02b9061308dc6e31191ea0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple links, including one to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=michael+bazzell+pdf+download'. This redirector likely leads to a phishing page or malware download. The document's structure and embedded links suggest a phishing attempt disguised as a free download lure, consistent with spearphishing attachment tactics.

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=michael+bazzell+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.gruverstreefarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814476/5187c8a1922b44a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssurll.com/10rckjIn 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/1/0429/4138/2812/files/defudabatojavori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9688/3614/files/lofibofijitirofawedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/slim_whitman_i_remember_you.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4789/2630/files/english_guide_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2403/9592/files/xufuramabagago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6077/2516/files/besame_mucho_piano_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zekimopesafirizaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3419/7666/files/48375998972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/21896273490.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_off00004cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CFB 5256 bytes
SHA-256: a13aa7486ded389e04e1e5d372f4b7ee7ecdc47053cae7244dd30a607ba514bd
font_01_sfnt_off00005ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EF4 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 6c6ab1fdb62257a9872631ea04238c213965eb3bac972aab32054361e10cb8db