Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2965714e5b5cb0f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:12:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4d94f2b3c7694b695855bf96c793e8cc SHA-1: 6f4e491c770570ef621806039ceb9bad0a0101c1 SHA-256: 2965714e5b5cb0f1311e5cc9a10cc91de42102ff219deba62c01a6cf31dd5388
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=jingle+bells+piano+sheet+hard'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links pointing to various PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'jingle bells piano sheet hard' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site.

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=jingle+bells+piano+sheet+hard In PDF document text
    • http://toronifot.beautifuljourneybirthservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407552/gebakuv-bajepigexovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simchatalya.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383283/d7d12660537.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/1/0432/7748/4196/files/avast_registration_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2539/2035/files/mrityunjay_kadambari_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2671/6584/files/44705807370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7496/1059/files/93011173024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1163/6381/files/gymnopedie_1_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7335/3366/files/wuvemaverelivadabejanasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8151/3625/files/name_change_affidavit_for_passport.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1590/5951/files/68055852287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2216/1832/files/kojigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0654/9406/files/zoderokalujisajukelajolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8570/1019/files/danitalugurika.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000554c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x554C 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 924d76a4ae952a0612305dff1817bdc835b45b5782882db669728b3b51b49d59
font_01_sfnt_off0000675b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x675B 10348 bytes
SHA-256: af3071568ace1133c51f71af4e3df5743d3c0958c51eee193c7f9528870dca89
font_02_sfnt_off00008afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AFA 16100 bytes
SHA-256: d973db94ba2c448c661c26f08d051ac794e7cb4f3c7daa33c2141e8036f071b6

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