Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37cd6d928e2961c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:41:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8407542a164c5950241ade95fbee243b SHA-1: 32e85141ca025230955e64865414790e44527a17 SHA-256: 37cd6d928e2961c6ac6e87d0d19c624f6d7e1172f454051f57ce9aac94849b15
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=barbie+twin+sheets+for+sale'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a link farm or content distribution network used to host lures. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery.

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.ru/pify?keyword=barbie+twin+sheets+for+sale In PDF document text
    • http://babogofom.cjautotechs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740235/12d39b9b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hwollintherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070313/kidafomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hellewoodworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/97e26bbc3ff466.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/1/0429/7133/2767/files/dabokupomujuvukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/21373888555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0891/7657/files/lovazobamakanezofumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2826/6654/files/mevogosutazozofiditofexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5943/0047/files/access_radgrid_edit_form_control_in_javascript.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7259/2801/files/wonotafekete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5653/6479/files/bacterial_wilt_of_banana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4391/2856/files/72610745714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0821/1619/files/93392334048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6263/2360/files/conditional_formatting_google_sheets_entire_column.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gerakofidasetivivirodipel.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_off0000487f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x487F 5136 bytes
SHA-256: d611217de9630cfb0e6c76c2d37639533052306be99d1b4051ff8ddc87a1ee58
font_01_sfnt_off00005a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A02 9300 bytes
SHA-256: 988f105fac4358835676efb347ba7e104dfe046362187fc896cb590d377b5044