Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5382a7c9dcfc1a92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 12:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6bffc10b0113808b6e5ed263d5409899 SHA-1: 1a47737f27ad78d38c6aeead350b3aa0b832a662 SHA-256: 5382a7c9dcfc1a92f40c293150dbd99888bd02c35b371d0daced609f79f2b307
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=platform+7+review'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to this malicious site. The presence of a link farm heuristic further supports the malicious intent of distributing links.

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=platform+7+review In PDF document text
    • http://savewi.corpsefeed.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/741ca5e58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rootedandrestored.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740522/8734627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witig.careforwildlife.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814788/52ebae304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rosiespoppy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378899/f001ed.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/1/0427/8072/1311/files/81764246760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/anaerobic_fermentation_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2589/9426/files/random_song_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8475/9711/files/pemugududiwulujurozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5913/5132/files/bagan_self_guided_tour.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9875/7538/files/xebesupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0991/6576/files/case_study_research_design_and_methods_robert_yin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/84341232448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0837/6482/files/sowogeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6385/2712/files/lujanusutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4669/0203/files/84106583032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3338/7420/files/balancing_chemical_equations_answers_phet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7613/0718/files/52320092187.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_off00007373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7373 4968 bytes
SHA-256: 91285efa025ed18aa7c50d0db540534a06fcd2dae950aed439eae395ed667f90
font_01_sfnt_off0000845d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x845D 9996 bytes
SHA-256: 38245e69f6c39b55dc0c2609a34c85e75c21c4f9c518aff712da175dff4d547c