Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22f1fdc789ffc8b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 59244483b3f968aa41d461be20a2a97b SHA-1: 81823a2626a3baf8eb02cd350b06385777a78c9b SHA-256: 22f1fdc789ffc8b7345c0f66f2cc02da1afad6b1f2724b8bfc9616b92226ee77
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to shopify.com domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body contains the text 'My inmortal sheet music', which is likely a lure to entice users to click the links.

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=my+inmortal+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.christopherkerrayer.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816036/jizozeselodel_majipinav_gaxotugomivovi_xafizuvewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.loricesbeautyplace.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383383/7839454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.athenspassportmagazine.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873717/1595525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kmgartistry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408798/9371822.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/1/0430/9201/7305/files/23559630033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5621/7750/files/tisizavokevatawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/67451355966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0714/8185/files/rerufomivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/37119501375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kovogosiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6667/8686/files/52360732864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6280/2070/files/juvaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7113/6154/files/mifebelulikanugokudefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5261/1222/files/88596335426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1811/5480/files/79877613296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4092/4063/files/44459002257.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
🗂 Part of campaign: athenspassportmagazine.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000046a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46A0 5148 bytes
SHA-256: f3306c2b622c2a9d577c37e30e2bf81b2c31928e9a6480ab27aa3cf39ab2bd13
font_01_sfnt_off00005800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5800 9020 bytes
SHA-256: 521936d82c984949ca726c02a5db47f6284a1c78fe1da8b850867b0aac9ec426