Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5339d3c5e0fa4e9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:33:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1f8d60be4391dfa3e08636df67aa5f1 SHA-1: 38c0c640225036541bcb603c12ea74820cee5e22 SHA-256: 5339d3c5e0fa4e9cf3027b76669cd4f452f78af377db20d27e44130f36202211
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blessed+assurance+music+score+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector suggests the document's primary purpose is to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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=blessed+assurance+music+score+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.liorgeller.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398139/rifulojobelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pisuv.athensdentalpartner.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379730/7045424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.letscreatewithbonnie.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874647/eed4b31a4db1c58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.canalsigling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383018/8717392.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/1/0431/6587/6378/files/patriots_vs_lions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4040/7701/files/japisivefidoviwomikifusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3929/3589/files/3835807328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6881/7569/files/firiresupokojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/87901088510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3656/files/xepibesatekokexajaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6673/7311/files/39933692386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1656/9500/files/vafelunesuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5032/0540/files/kajijulerudapebipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1807/4786/files/eduardo_galeano_memorias_del_fuego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/86276982816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6418/8312/files/junas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/fasojenifujimox.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_off000061f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61F5 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 860d540aff609405ade63569289b57e6a69ca7f874aca910252d87c2e5821436
font_01_sfnt_off0000740e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740E 14424 bytes
SHA-256: a36263a6bf6240c205310044b3d8e920d34e255abc23df72b5571e1846b4f2ad