Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0487359b90101c36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 02:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3e790bb747b38eb1a9cf58f9c3a3ee07 SHA-1: d2dac7f24dfccd3f1d472d353b39dffbd8fe33c9 SHA-256: 0487359b90101c36533d939b8973bd2f2424c493e2dd9ccce7d9505cb3297d69
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=become+a+living+god+pdf`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body also contains this URL and a list of other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the attack pattern.

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=become+a+living+god+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kellyjokreationsks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682210/lewal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pietjekobus.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406449/dijakowefobikon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.poemsalongtheway.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871907/3367815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/22052901721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9600/7065/files/84788179619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8365/2506/files/gardiner_egyptian_grammar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8858/4605/files/janegovitelevesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/vimunumowisovaneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9636/7511/files/xegoviwabeneloxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1893/4677/files/elementary_intermediate_algebra_bittinger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5524/2655/files/70061941996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/administracion_de_recursos_humanos_bohlander.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6166/files/penolasapanabarinujipemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6089/5650/files/22172348088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5060/5461/files/jakaviwizarufosudozojatam.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_off00005a18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A18 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 81e11bf6a7a406f2c64bef90e3dc67b15bb92aac6aa4e3c242725701fbc63404
font_01_sfnt_off00006b10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B10 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 00c5e7c5d546619c3a66a2fdf8bd0293ddd07579387fcb3de5c5f56d1e6f61e8
font_02_sfnt_off00008d7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D7A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34