Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53db24309ade1853…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 18:59:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e35806a336129a3e9f878f283af68b0f SHA-1: 963eddab0767f2a4225789fb7dc76d3b76eb2866 SHA-256: 53db24309ade185363a88e2f5bd7a8f6ff710017e75eeb8d568be138c483a029
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic. It embeds a large number of links, many pointing to shopify.com, but one critical link redirects through ttraff.cc to a URL containing 'netgear+wndr+3700+manual'. This redirector is known to be malicious and likely serves as a first stage for malware delivery or phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=netgear+wndr+3700+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.victoriabaker.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406430/wulelizijamiwijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phimi.pt/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482954/4e834d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sumid.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637055/6574625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.woodlandparkpack20.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380915/bf9a82dff0569cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.everychildisamiracle.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070826/2589213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9613/0211/files/xedefuwosewuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7356/7894/files/vapowajadina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9952/files/gukugorolozafifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/suramagufumaxuragozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/87756698901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5852/7397/files/24638220112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2304/6568/files/38791832365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/vutulegifuzapovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8462/7616/files/muruxope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2206/3515/files/38974390444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0532/9064/files/gepenoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/html_image_viewer.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5980 5136 bytes
SHA-256: bc197d91ba1b6a7bdf4f72fbeb762b0d0aa9de5166a4b7edc197ca678fd2fba0
font_01_sfnt_off00006af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF2 9880 bytes
SHA-256: bf2d67689415760b114a84fcc5724957fcecefb1cf2389803dc85ba60dbd589a
font_02_sfnt_off00008cc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CC2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176