Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49d57ba411a01161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:22:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5cd5cc5f720d30d6f38766371dbf0b63 SHA-1: b82447819976fe111fcdfdfafd3ba9c3f8a09798 SHA-256: 49d57ba411a01161e6df1826b5ad83caef044c16f25fee378af8d49c6f5f53c3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ashrae+handbook+refrigeration+systems+and+applications+pdf`, which is likely intended to lead the user to malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the same redirector URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the malicious intent. 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=ashrae+handbook+refrigeration+systems+and+applications+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.nmoc.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406736/7125497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.debillaslux.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739069/vojujozofali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thefarmonfishmarket.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383549/tirojalamarej_fatufuvosarid_zalalijowari_soverorasedeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spinecarechiropractic.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/30437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.churchandlife.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379409/mekunobop.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/1/0433/8892/8150/files/lodukerigerop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1277/3272/files/bubedolebiborep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1662/6081/files/patigojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0537/0787/files/22284519166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7515/7670/files/34654564355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/jafugabelomusolinopunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9286/0327/files/pusalebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3748/9309/files/zegufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0061/7381/files/64274946290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6687/4266/files/pefomeroguwipuvukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6119/8500/files/kijate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/accounting_theory_noun.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_off00008447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8447 5864 bytes
SHA-256: 3d72764a4a9447f5a5839ffb7ae65037d364b3118a1e73ee1be76ab3710aa4de
font_01_sfnt_off0000981f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x981F 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 1505a151bcab1e647fceaf91c01113c9b133816cf131aa4265de34c88b63640b