Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36da9743e893aeac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe170b9323a0c3eded0e002f569c3ef5 SHA-1: 3fbf927cf80315372f768faaf2b19d015c8a43c2 SHA-256: 36da9743e893aeac0f8edbef4385a1a8f6c2a662e0d2b486c3813e105dd9d6f7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=magisterium+the+golden+tower+pdf+download', is designed to lure users into downloading a PDF by presenting it as a legitimate download. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. The presence of numerous Shopify links suggests an attempt to blend malicious links with seemingly benign content.

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=magisterium+the+golden+tower+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.nymeria-uk.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380345/wijij-dajevaripodaji-gitilikejiv-padom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.historyleadership.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681740/fekaxojuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.damianduguid.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163666/zirokekuro_tarekajozu.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/1/0431/7777/1164/files/sulazulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6707/9830/files/marksman_trainer_morrowind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3214/9148/files/revukajeponiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5165/6102/files/37720369579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8221/1733/files/witivebofudesagukitewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6282/files/kasetoxixokonuxuponire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3562/2552/files/zufaxowiginifujixugepewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9299/2410/files/toripinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8871/files/sopijulotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8353/9366/files/vipobumawebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62092070186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2790/6206/files/rikotizoruwufikuras.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_off0000498e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x498E 5436 bytes
SHA-256: f7fa270431f653410caa39d2828aa224131dfebd159ae197e94ea8005f365e12
font_01_sfnt_off00005bfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BFC 9800 bytes
SHA-256: 58c5ae1f453d7246981f90dec0526b308ba64a09fdde5da32f973245856b3731
font_02_sfnt_off00007d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3