Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 422aaf390e335182…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 08:00:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb983c5d5120547dac1b7b9e8116cd18 SHA-1: b891b895604954cf904bb3d9da95d4abdd20acdd SHA-256: 422aaf390e33518292c2913874a52caeb8e726a573841e2511ab8334dfff4657
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate a PDF link farm and a malicious redirector, strongly suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=mimesis+auerbach+pdf+espa%25C3%25B1ol. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify links, some of which are confirmed benign and likely used to mask the malicious intent.

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.cc/pify?keyword=mimesis+auerbach+pdf+espa%25C3%25B1ol In PDF document text
    • http://files.dcmu.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378780/vudifibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dusedafax.484sign.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874038/51fd7deec179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westernsafetyconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738889/6177529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dlrconstructionco.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/zutaxuli_lemiwigu_sifubogedufesak_gonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3563/files/my_crown_fell_off_can_i_eat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6921/0773/files/53263124961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7565/6094/files/79946267150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6466/7810/files/berger_paints_color_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/57953931254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4252/0739/files/babewotavitebedunifola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0588/5090/files/jezogizibuximolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8475/0747/files/sonituziverobugevofixadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0110/9920/files/rekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5516/7126/files/icc_certification_practice_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3657/1805/files/cateye_velo_7_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6217/3604/files/65139516958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5770/9210/files/luciano_canfora_tucidide.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000073ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73CA 5448 bytes
SHA-256: e371f77567e1b398567c9234a5632cfd93a83056e39c72f83ae9526529c6173d
font_01_sfnt_off00008615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8615 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 0c213a5b6987c4bf02b2e0ff1728c75835c6d79b61f9da65a66d273a39f5ed65
font_02_sfnt_off0000aab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAB4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176