Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 504abb712d5f28a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 11:33:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 77dae2733f660108b26459a8fa7f5437 SHA-1: dfa453e951ccfae0b2d7ddcb94888cb1d9338dad SHA-256: 504abb712d5f28a8d3ae0aa9e31c2133b0109f5293e8cd378f5dc430047694d9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, traff.com, which is disguised with keywords related to JFK's inaugural address. This suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to direct users to malicious content. The PDF also contains a large number of links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=inaugural+address+jfk+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.southernwildproducts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775747/deranojiveg-ridoz.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/1/0437/7473/8586/files/11081348349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/metal_cutting_theory_and_practice_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4488/5912/files/tixedotuvoturem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1479/9012/files/bimozudaxeledoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/rudadapunipaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2504/2329/files/oh_baby_girl_song_starmusiq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6145/8582/files/95373314730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4311/0555/files/33101355351.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_off0000b1a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1A6 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 95a5bf496bcca646f3b8aff28ae88430652d2a6e4c3333831de43c95fdddbf74
font_01_sfnt_off0000c3a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3A5 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 70880a7e6fbd1428c05a7128d92b68276257907b5379dcb8518072d2dda90501

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