Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43947ed0f871f2fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 20:28:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 94cbd5bbfc8cb24a2faea2aa00fe329b SHA-1: b687b13e2a3bee35e75583a27a467b6a0ed235b0 SHA-256: 43947ed0f871f2fbaef36c6ba3dd3de6c432767b6cf20d272a0e490e2f34cf22
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=textbook+of+electrocardiography+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Textbook of electrocardiography pdf' and mentions wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure for a document download that ultimately leads to a malicious site.

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=textbook+of+electrocardiography+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jessnicolephotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874680/9ad9a9832994f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.machinetoolsrebuilt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740158/wimamalataw-danuxexuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donorsmatterpdx.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874647/ruwugosivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daiskyglam.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/6078879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.retiredmensclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398143/dowipudiw-sirirebun-domiwiv-sosikegibo.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/1/0427/7298/8071/files/voximukifidokajokomafuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/tegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4536/3616/files/jixurisufexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5778/3718/files/89802107305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6164/0358/files/23896781854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/4334643139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4904/9499/files/84143398923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3417/1800/files/poulan_p3314_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9029/files/gakunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6662/9032/files/19807511421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0910/6335/files/62011391083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0611/6511/files/33574710816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5630/8123/files/71796421942.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_off0000694d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x694D 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 1a6934d4c691216a9fc84d86fed15856a8b09fca526593e6b53c55a1daf8d0d6
font_01_sfnt_off00007c3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C3F 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 17850cfed168f26c0848977cb32978a4920cd11e7962550302b438e39bc3add5