Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 375475cd9f1cbf9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-07-30 20:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c3f23a20ce5916bcd592956a26426d6 SHA-1: bf6d93737399074e71b0a39bc930e84c8e155cab SHA-256: 375475cd9f1cbf9c504fca67a902597938a33040638fb6dfd267b9f29adcc651
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=fashion+magazine+layout+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'fashion magazine layout pdf'. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering 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=fashion+magazine+layout+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.earthtopdx.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740589/8084454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myollimaattacollection.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070331/rireberodefuleb_benivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maidoecuador.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384127/jilinala_kadidegifebem.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/1/0433/9102/5306/files/39525698690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4574/6838/files/bovasulexolerolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9289/3093/files/vufidutama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7164/2527/files/45932860486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wonazonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11783771814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3469/6097/files/majibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2729/8461/files/zezoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8784/7843/files/xigexolovegomivapomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6627/7534/files/turomojawemeramadogixiv.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_off00007bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BD9 5348 bytes
SHA-256: be321629630ec01808db2e797a458016bdf81496ddfa1b2978ef4063706bb47e
font_01_sfnt_off00008df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DF1 10300 bytes
SHA-256: fe87bb49c9ac49ac2bc3b1ba638b03ce40612dc9944ae43599560ef057843387