Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d43185d31251f1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:41:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 65712d45ce54770d8ef12f6d999ed047 SHA-1: 6bc94e76abbb1fac013005dcc559700ebf78d240 SHA-256: 2d43185d31251f1e01f986a9ca55e375049f310bdaa75775bcc116d1ce586a49
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, disguised with text suggesting it is a guitar chords guide. The PDF also contains a mass link farm pointing to numerous Shopify URLs, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious action appears to be the redirection via the embedded link.

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=beginners+guide+to+guitar+chords+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.amainstreetchristmas.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739155/0c103a54388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togawugu.ahavattorahla.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/zunisawipadijazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ctmeetingspace.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164159/zedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iamlegacy.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/8245398.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/1/0430/0609/9605/files/64495740485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8649/5397/files/63874947383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5712/7336/files/dekafotunodizujofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4188/1254/files/mebigovoduvako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6845/6088/files/aptitude_test_for_interview_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3329/7058/files/83933514912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4059/5352/files/45360447123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4927/7845/files/case_study_of_urban_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9644/6878/files/dovidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5877/files/digavozowoxoranuladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4931/9577/files/beginner_english_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5460/files/33358502323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2401/3722/files/activity_diagram_symbols_and_notations.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_off00006cda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CDA 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 8839deb0f481901548ae038804d6868ea8810f95340e98512d8e645a8704f554
font_01_sfnt_off00007f56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F56 10076 bytes
SHA-256: a58d2d8e1f5f630f0f7caf355f32ecc030f0117a80003fbd7831a85f8fb4fecd

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