Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c130a3abd424b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 11:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b1524bafb1f4ab8a88c6fead71ffc3b4 SHA-1: 7fb5a00dbd4e15c72202da191cf46edb220717dd SHA-256: 42c130a3abd424b14d3dcffb34291a1a9d4a6a0f54709d083bb139d95e50b26c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=wifi+hotspot+windows+7'. This URL is presented within the document body, alongside numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=wifi+hotspot+windows+7 In PDF document text
    • http://files.humanesocietyofdelnorte.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163705/lubonipoxeguxifavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teachingreexplored.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164124/xevasemutitixesobuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tcdfw.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637255/wubux-zamebarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.corelliwinecompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871740/dasatozisadevaruzini.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/1/0432/3662/2498/files/riwiguwulimanakigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/77363931764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0883/5229/files/29515814441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5044/8549/files/osrs_balloon_transport.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3784/9762/files/rurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8012/2532/files/26630857316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1916/5086/files/polid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3042/files/52307536119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5193/3078/files/50916897556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7848/3096/files/34132538832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5166/3012/files/vavoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5249/1159/files/6765556976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/romoxokakowaveviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/julutason.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_off00006659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6659 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 71467e272a99fd3a257ebc721824ff9d9f1e63a64883b1b1f37cea6dc6f2f241
font_01_sfnt_off00007772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7772 10344 bytes
SHA-256: d5956c634f3ba39e70e7e276e15f892585aac88bdff35e9caffe0bd0c104465d