Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06c79b1e5353e375…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 20:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5ae8b77a84cba6687d642a366cc03c1a SHA-1: ed98782408d68e71f6e6f8f2f9509f2816e86037 SHA-256: 06c79b1e5353e3757cf2d3c92a6b9e4ae00eef3c3a82bbdc94f7019a3c3dd6e8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to lure users. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ancora+ludovico+einaudi+pdf, is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

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=ancora+ludovico+einaudi+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.redriverobedience.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/d7a458f3a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maeflower.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814397/gatedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.craigmckechnie.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695986/7529544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifted-queens.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814272/wumita.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/1/0437/2211/3192/files/48532930580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bovabokuvuxinapuwukiberem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7441/1926/files/59637783782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2574/4547/files/9713966674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9588/3925/files/muzagugadufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6091/9462/files/94690600180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8300/5078/files/fixetakisolefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1789/6089/files/39470489201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1702/files/roll20_wild_shape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7984/2457/files/lujuragerigejaluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8380/9439/files/megafomo.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_off00007dae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DAE 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 96ba7728590771c5b4a31ad2d4c510db31dbb3f7cdf2f37710d76ad94504c9b3
font_01_sfnt_off00008edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EDF 11716 bytes
SHA-256: 83229ce8fe181e80693f1fbe45ce6e4175c99b3b4848eddc3a6738bc4d445297