Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 501f6965545c2512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:31:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5f4e6d179d51d2e8b7118b0f52b1ceca SHA-1: fa163f1ca81793f2d99ee74468dc439b92910d1c SHA-256: 501f6965545c2512ce4d7700a7fd4515605fd7f7077ad990fb9bdf96b7fcdb82
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 hosting other PDFs. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a reference to 'piano sheet music', suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

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=faithless+drifting+away+piano+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.columbuscountydisasterresponse.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776619/1e57710ffa97b9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theartswithpassion.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969153/niropokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pudok.piano4t.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379061/jilexaz.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/1/0438/3349/1606/files/bankersadda_quant_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2465/8082/files/75726224209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2748/1255/files/rinoxetuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7645/9422/files/16201333728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9065/6921/files/fepivagojelikefotate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9619/5737/files/18976387927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4357/7256/files/84391917846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8838/0061/files/19441202673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6318/9405/files/xampp_mysql_default_password.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4372/4186/files/jifivuvagegipaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4436/3678/files/buvutejutowefumarifosoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8788/7526/files/16877306472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8506/8456/files/14692634978.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_off00005168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5168 5716 bytes
SHA-256: 7f2da8d67b9af7a1b66e05b4d233c14fac03ec2d61ec2ffe14f42857e1f52bb2
font_01_sfnt_off000064bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64BD 15016 bytes
SHA-256: 54bad1abdab19e707bee1f405b0186c99b3e29423a183324849a9a47abfa693c

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