Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 400fcbd73af639b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5fbfb3cae5b6d0b16acbda18be3b0b06 SHA-1: 57cd15bc456cec90a9199c2cf45d1d90f5b79172 SHA-256: 400fcbd73af639b5201907ff34f33541f8c27840a72acf12b9595611f3cda9d2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=fake+love+drake+piano+sheet+music'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to sheet music and the redirector URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=fake+love+drake+piano+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.firstaidresilience.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968917/e093b68f8a24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bcwawomen.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071277/3818016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soundconceptsph.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455463/4363043.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/1/0430/7651/8049/files/bagavorajagajezubikawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0134/7226/files/noxokamemaluvupopofekibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4431/5041/files/algae_biofuel_production.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7237/3411/files/ipratropium_inhaler_davis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2132/files/18033544824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4625/6295/files/9259968321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8841/2836/files/eye_to_eye_goofy_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0741/7253/files/misukijuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6965/9549/files/d_d_manual_of_the_planes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4227/4471/files/bitsat_previous_year_papers_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6385/2712/files/19992262906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7333/0593/files/79713450810.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8128 5392 bytes
SHA-256: ec927e86c088f7147c67ae9ab6db08b7e53d71390e0be5008bfc68612429f5aa
font_01_sfnt_off00009357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9357 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9133f8c49f98a3e0c37ab7e8d2ac5b17eb5a9d20b3e80070896afff28184b9
font_02_sfnt_off0000b6fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6FB 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 84650fe671c70ac66f3af0994468c9b9feb42d01905b0f030d5781e095ef8e52