Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47f9d039e58a210d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8f96399b5763aada91c95da18526c879 SHA-1: eabb6b2f3bd49a1630fd197e253130b68b6a67ae SHA-256: 47f9d039e58a210d4a3143053c57582f8423ce94da1d3ee9d14470d54ade8c7f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Blank sheet music to write on' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of a malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of 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.com/wix?keyword=blank+sheet+music+to+write+on In 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/1/0432/1620/8036/files/guided_busway_cambridgeshire_timetable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7463/4403/files/22831268547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/7697580105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0305/1175/files/animal_farm_chapter_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/5549/7635/files/44248928080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8268/6367/files/whistle_baby_ringtone_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9629/4051/files/bessemer_furnace.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4337/9617/files/anexo_2_oaci.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ab5ed_86859317e149444a8a365d5434ef86b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c1554_03117d2ac4c744e7a6f2653ce350a4d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/69b86f_70c03171f0a248128dce5c53bf31ffca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c068f8_596a541fdb554b358e3965e6630c6f1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_464e342a9e0b4727be6cb3b056a22f9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9eb187_4ad2de40eff2463b80bdd13f4d135b44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e643da_12fd70a0225a4f96aa80990a84628ffd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/be19e1_785bb0c06fa240f1b405618238e0e17e.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off00006f41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F41 6648 bytes
SHA-256: fb2948cd82ee9e21e92b184d2602bfd31c1d8a5ee934155d56ac5ceecb72d2f4
font_01_sfnt_off00007fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FB9 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 852108109ce8b36033be36671b40b2233f9630702908333f04a3509407eabbe7
font_02_sfnt_off00009170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9170 10456 bytes
SHA-256: d4dce49d3267974c8088a28557ef6b0fe86be6d296df56ee5931cbd21262d89b