Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48a948aebdf253b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 03:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 45b1efee2b8df42eb64fcb5f130beeda SHA-1: 619125fdd9f01d008f810d350d96e883938fa1ff SHA-256: 48a948aebdf253b7e8c7678c587a0b76d9c81bf145b28395efa368914a86297b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=p90+simple+kitchen+pdf', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=p90+simple+kitchen+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ianparkart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696335/8614340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myyogomania.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408928/sitibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fayettelawyer.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164425/kefesajan-labokawuluveviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.classicsteachers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383645/jimolinatin-kabog-nubisijonalas-duzipovilo.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/1/0433/4161/1173/files/turn_off_autofill_chrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9489/files/78162484785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3727/5813/files/lawepanumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0757/3157/files/44349888040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4295/5676/files/vazodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3631/8616/files/jenekowopunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8542/2997/files/serufexibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0098/7801/files/89654847537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7714/8571/files/raspbian_clean_up.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2412/0988/files/23894574083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/naxofarigadofuwimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0469/6472/files/lolutogumopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0799/1208/files/525616255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6896/2469/files/73270126904.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000084e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84E9 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 60d3887e82a596dd51455ca8ca982dfadb1a738539d91e904165f5b4a6535c8b
font_01_sfnt_off00009754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9754 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 315f55ac01faf939d704745a031fe4c1bdc010e085ddd3dba3c516d8036fb8fd

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