Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3801a54addf7e6e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3708b784531273e33976e8f9ec778579 SHA-1: fa538857424d8b2f119d82061e0ac8c457a3fdfc SHA-256: 3801a54addf7e6e1e61a598318e70ade4a8564688c36ebb783eb01a55bd61620
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=carpenters+sing+sheet+music+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDF links, while individually benign, contributes to a link farm pattern, likely for SEO manipulation to improve the ranking of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

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=carpenters+sing+sheet+music+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://viliduxa.sheilajnorris.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775475/cc1d784a89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dawndiezwillis.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695862/tazuda_wetonibojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shipasapfreight.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682833/1876bc94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glynnpt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739621/2612858.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/1/0430/1307/9203/files/58448030583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3876/files/59104975412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5114/6649/files/sisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7047/9766/files/fabadurosenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/37588662235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7808/9878/files/47150257308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0469/files/general_organic_and_biological_chemistry_timberlake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1400/3610/files/toludosujirefepafavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0452/files/mowovikilakatalewijugekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6625/3724/files/fonadimidibisezojalatajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/24929620581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5037/6099/files/editorial_writing_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7952/files/65251997997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2674/9339/files/newesowagagabizepofelatun.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_off00004ecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ECC 5440 bytes
SHA-256: 7f09666f0e8d91baf0680a44d1ea7b407500d96645f99b5b3aedbf8e4573eab3
font_01_sfnt_off00006120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6120 10436 bytes
SHA-256: af77943fdf779978dd213ec2230ffdd1c5e2c846e3e7840708694efb7f55d3b7