Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41aafb843cd765a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 08:52:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 063fab5c26ea95d2db0dce24d94ae4e1 SHA-1: 7880fe6bf63422a9a261f31a1700123746ad5107 SHA-256: 41aafb843cd765a7e81dc96a823da6e9098fef6bd64506543c21449d4d028c87
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=song+show+plus', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential SEO poisoning or link farm strategy to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=song+show+plus In PDF document text
    • http://files.mzocoill.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/pavewegatevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.germanchatterbox.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813550/7751588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavopek.masterledford.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874050/e288b7d675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leididonna.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813768/vawonagiguzu.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/1/0432/7853/2758/files/nugadovaduler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3789/1480/files/vestirse_conjugation_preterite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2594/7029/files/91694400658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6906/3836/files/66898536520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4969/files/91108785983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4431/6070/files/likor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9115/files/zadozizurate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8411/1267/files/sublime_text_3_license_key_3207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7437/9158/files/90435316792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7616/files/30510635482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6331/1512/files/kexobunozisimegupowi.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_off000059a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59A3 4972 bytes
SHA-256: 14c681f458101e829e0da649a6dd1e68b7506ea7b3788c4b930f197bc0d31bad
font_01_sfnt_off00006aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AA8 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 91dc0891e0bc2984b653e73fda0f2fb9a0860080f0d737387c6cabbe96db0f20