Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d54b73446efe31f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 15:07:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d8fc72c53e9377bee94db43a1a07665e SHA-1: 9a9f939eabe2e7362f285c191d5828ec7a739826 SHA-256: 0d54b73446efe31f69a3de499f5d75d29a18089c8ee0b74e1dec1024012011b4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on domains associated with SEO link farms and redirectors. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=marvel+universe+vs+the+punisher+pdf', is flagged as malicious and likely serves as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to create a large, seemingly legitimate link farm to mask malicious activity.

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.com/pify?keyword=marvel+universe+vs+the+punisher+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.adara.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607269/cb8989e9946447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hudsonfarmersmarketny.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/kogifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.olivesnstuff.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776247/f152d6d32456947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.qthpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381946/4d7c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fireflyflowerfarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682897/1081627.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/1/0432/2384/2983/files/18429855978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5041/files/apluda_mutica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8863/2213/files/xidulufigisajigizedotamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/25322908130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3735/0293/files/64270590864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/42539854631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9469/5324/files/form_ct_6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3353/4369/files/how_to_program_a_ge_universal_remote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4653/5322/files/nufozaviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6072/files/86818134252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4539/5359/files/19724499294.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_off00006fef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FEF 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 59b0fbea43bca1af99ebe586e893361d653fd9598aaa879ed043a6a9847d7f01
font_01_sfnt_off000081a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81A7 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 798b9665c068fb07434d428cf4c048d389ccebd40438bff8cfb71f56ee9c2094