Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51042fcee671feeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 00:57:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a7dbf2eaec2ca2de1c384745aa3a178d SHA-1: 767cbff94b782e09b77c82e1869a69b968f1d1c4 SHA-256: 51042fcee671feeb439d10af1508e9e5df336d92f7468cfe8d1e8b74b4a14935
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=windows+10+cleanup+script', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and suggests a lure related to system maintenance. The presence of a visible LOLBin command execution instruction further supports the malicious intent, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=windows+10+cleanup+script In PDF document text
    • http://files.alanparsonsjewellery.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607010/puzixemi-xefini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.norcalsmartvestorpro.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/96f0fa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesalvagesisters.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739986/ba82b1467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.historydbqs.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163613/2df583a049.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/1/0427/7541/2902/files/25577505062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8548/6485/files/narufimopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1464/2074/files/guropetalusudenavilolulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1869/0458/files/13300079340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8640/5022/files/84318951118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6988/8929/files/d3_patch_2._3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4338/9597/files/54586061259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3713/0914/files/zegekate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7386/2808/files/sumifetamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8168/6439/files/walowiretesekubinezena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8872/3616/files/nijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4203/8182/files/10179256948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6128/7839/files/goldman_fristoe_test_of_articulation_2.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_off00006726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6726 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 0da5ba1c44801bd5d5fb9c1a7295f27c760f836a3dc4be232b47b4399847ad53
font_01_sfnt_off00007992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7992 14948 bytes
SHA-256: eb32e661649b5d694dab64aa158ce5d3b3e3edc44d4a9fa6f85bc31d801f871d