Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23e0ac4c33395d1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:25:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4de6bbed6a32618c2489fb28a55ee863 SHA-1: 4eabfe26522cfd421e9c971e47d1b8e37229d732 SHA-256: 23e0ac4c33395d1a7c77eafee32ef060f40762a2a01900e2e80e30d398fe4977
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=anywhere+you+go+song'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and a reference to a song title, likely serving as a lure. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure through a deceptive link farm.

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=anywhere+you+go+song In PDF document text
    • http://files.nidinidi.ca/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302987/1e4285add.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/1/0433/3459/8809/files/48352474188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7460/0598/files/bamozaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3906/4225/files/aerodynamic_design_of_transport_aircraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7679/6057/files/66666671471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8014/6339/files/bazaar_apk_7._11_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0533/0083/files/wodexixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7658/2552/files/8925618139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/lunune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/kisulajetonik.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000488c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x488C 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 1726f4e2bf6c96a1204bfd4efe1da097c307787f6f9869942b71ee9fff270670
font_01_sfnt_off0000593f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x593F 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 4caa19d1c170dae4de43d43b0a357ee7dc527074075a003b010de3dcbda9489b

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