Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 315c02b9417dfc3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 00:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4707f0eab7c6a44cd292dd01e2e8d931 SHA-1: 10a17daeff4ddab4db71c0c0b52eeafbfa5a2ae6 SHA-256: 315c02b9417dfc3d84fa44079eef6fe9cc5867301a659c34fa0ff6141dff72a4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bully+dog+bdx+owners+manual'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a manual. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, including multiple Shopify subdomains. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure through a deceptive 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.cc/pify?keyword=bully+dog+bdx+owners+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.nalipops.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/tumumitukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezifut.randiandmike.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/durawikavademip_lazeta_tebupowoda_lotujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.katiepeters.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407977/4823780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamowi.hangupscompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/lapidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6877/5841/files/judimasamepilebewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4529/8074/files/cfpb_complaint_database.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2051/5488/files/exemple_d_attestation_sur_l_honneur_crous.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9154/2681/files/83713841207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9787/files/afcat_2018_questions_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/86257390216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9381/9541/files/fonabufanoputamunixalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5022/0185/files/xudelelefivesapukoxazavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1306/3327/files/25007177678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3217/2965/files/79547555352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3309/1480/files/vejejoposavese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9000/9502/files/agenda_escolar_2020_20_gratis.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000526d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x526D 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 977ecc41179329abb097c4946eaed784e2253732fd07dc88829d52165edb2ac3
font_01_sfnt_off0000648d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x648D 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 42f60f8666fe9572677a6181ec7706c5c5d7c4181091159ec3a387ba640abdc9
font_02_sfnt_off00008749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8749 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f