Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34e93554bb6407a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 09:18:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 725f6626835236b7038823489a155d88 SHA-1: f62fd3cf4b969b2efb56d84e5bb71848acb58800 SHA-256: 34e93554bb6407a60592e68e856380f17e2ed6da67bdae4a055411b444b4386c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blue+mountain+state+theme+song'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a reference to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated by a tool for creating PDF documents. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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=blue+mountain+state+theme+song In PDF document text
    • http://files.arabrams.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406659/afbc108fb0bd41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tntwfg.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776589/wakoj-bozurat-roxojevawawiwil-peguvojabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosielonsdalephotography.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406149/fidisigipebazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.operationcatsnipky.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453684/5e55b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bocodainc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739225/bomududi-meviriginaju.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/1/0432/2027/1259/files/3780759590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2444/7638/files/xaratazanugaxilezapolagul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/4592053086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9223/8745/files/basketball_wives_la_season_6_episode_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1503/5291/files/57669605290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31670740491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/guxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7857/4490/files/75728118318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8534/0580/files/matisijezekuwefexut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1776/files/vikaxivirizifojifepajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5557/0341/files/47578934994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1629/7368/files/43593490403.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EC4 5052 bytes
SHA-256: d554c34535db312fd1ad977ce97b281e0776d9283bfa9ff31b76666ccf1e4457
font_01_sfnt_off00006fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FD0 14832 bytes
SHA-256: 367cf57b4dcb239543021197ffb02fb2cc62364302c2eb6ccf2381b1b9dd4bed