Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40fb5b410ee92178…

MALICIOUS

PDF

152.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 16:01:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 53dc21e82cf226e5492a02472c35c7a4 SHA-1: 6afcdd055a0bc9a47f5ef901ad71ceb3e67d822a SHA-256: 40fb5b410ee9217861931d2f50904a9113b1ed3ab387881fcec969f6d625bb9f
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=catalog+panasonic+wide+series+pdf'. Additionally, a high severity heuristic indicates a 'Clipboard command execution lure', instructing the user to interact with shell commands. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to trick the user into navigating to the malicious URL, which likely serves as a dropper for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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.
  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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=catalog+panasonic+wide+series+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wintergreenmapleproducts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606431/d9cccae083c05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whitecloudsweb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406831/poxurakotekon-vosomo-morapuxamutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bxd-ia.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437484/tukenujinir_kemuji_nugenobijov_lugaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thegardensatsancarlos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409557/23222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aloannomore.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/5141397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9702/2871/files/pujowivofiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9578/5629/files/pigim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8402/9854/files/31921263350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0904/7708/files/initial_counseling_pvt_spc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1284/8790/files/duzomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2422/0321/files/bazezanumoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2249/1541/files/fable_3_save_editor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kijajakunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8774/files/79451305561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8025/3593/files/denutujizukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7257/7946/files/39704178854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8412/8151/files/segedovatoxixefasaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7462/4419/files/65975658720.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001cb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CB8A 2996 bytes
SHA-256: 91c65d4daef29bab276e56b606f9c5013e4f13bc29c78e9eee33dd87ab02342c
font_01_sfnt_off0001d64e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D64E 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 15cb4e17ab44d41bb50586834b1991177122fa72fe04e7d17835f89d889c3f76
font_02_sfnt_off0001e87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E87A 9380 bytes
SHA-256: 2faa0f2a6343cc27b43200fe628bbb857b48ca7e2ff4ecc114254f4ecd3c85ed
font_03_sfnt_off000202e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x202E4 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 3967eef9cc067d979744ce9f046e1133722dd0db0ebed51fbd86ae0627b2e09c
font_04_sfnt_off00023aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23AA8 16260 bytes
SHA-256: 1b3a7c1b7bc451495b69e6c2dc925dfa634ebf3cd17a1c22ac82dde46aeedc8f