Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44fb23701f955634…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 08:17:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb960d4262b80adb717d1258f0b07975 SHA-1: f4c1834aaf7f73647f1b57eebabf09162ab6e7c1 SHA-256: 44fb23701f9556342880c0cebab2758d4f32852e21682d8cf8fe962e83406b6d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=analisi+logica+semplificata+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of many links to Shopify domains, while individually benign, contributes to a link farm pattern.

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=analisi+logica+semplificata+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.strandridge.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856276/fubifajebo-sesarikakonoren-lalakos-petegizupuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thecuriouscatgiftshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681596/puwakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.totsandtumblers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873983/rubebipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tawiwu.aycreative.co/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/zuburovadokobaripimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caricatureparties.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874480/xojatoloximane_zugokudabisaruw_jetizekov.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/62042090741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1746/2182/files/41781755794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0704/9877/files/xelexuwimovidujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9257/3334/files/lizifosajokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0301/7378/files/wufosuwisafawijaloseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6805/4940/files/traktor_scratch_pro_manuale_italiano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6676/1120/files/21556514711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3159/2092/files/general_affidavit_form_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/80168336175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75609531209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7311/7096/files/kenefeseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6182/0054/files/sefoxurizupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7323/1258/files/guduvigimojagigaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/retexegodubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2591/4277/files/pdf_to_word_converter_offline_free_download_for_windows_8.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_off000063fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63FA 5368 bytes
SHA-256: ddf2691213aae16edb4f059cf7334aa38237c0071759d2d33de2c0663fb8c2f3
font_01_sfnt_off00007639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7639 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 8143e5f6ad5cf155199fde1fc3f15fac122ccc9d53a750fe8fda5d7fbd0f987b