Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53450f15f451522f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 21:09:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c3c1c19e1cb539eadd89001e38edfcac SHA-1: 4f63152aef55f9160632ce42d69167cc02a689a4 SHA-256: 53450f15f451522f5ce21fc7474427ee6c42111c4d866ba3f309da1995c8ff64
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=clicker+heroes+gild+guide', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and another Shopify URL, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of multiple PDF links and the ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=clicker+heroes+gild+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.katerinalewisviola.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740234/2608020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.doulababes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380598/5934a67b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.loftypoppy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856310/4988737.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/1/0427/5961/8716/files/jezojodokafofilisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4541/9170/files/bogadisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3656/files/40614022965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1605/2123/files/wesoxiwemazodina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3749/1354/files/34630664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/jawerolukudamewiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8353/8331/files/guwumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1341/3791/files/67193721333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4979/3174/files/7964521455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3393/4496/files/33660130145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8062/3015/files/xisaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2401/5783/files/foluxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7319/1587/files/99771406811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0599/3375/files/28011986458.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_off0000a22e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA22E 4960 bytes
SHA-256: aa943a1606b911c7b0ff7f932f61cd0bebff739a93191401e8d29054178f6275
font_01_sfnt_off0000b306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB306 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 021f30d28c7c0e661bf8a9cae4dba5e3777c70063751e92d1e67f315c55ab02b

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