Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5607dd34b3dbdb33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-07-28 11:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6d15a5621ced1ceb9670c9db851b240a SHA-1: 23b03909b32462120d974910836a1c37715f7add SHA-256: 5607dd34b3dbdb334e9144c16d2cd6e020a243a514db3a66e76593cc62d85da1
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=thunderstruck+bagpipe+music+sheet, is used to redirect users, likely to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious destination and potentially improve search engine ranking for benign-looking content.

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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=thunderstruck+bagpipe+music+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.joshuaewilliams.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398498/kazenuvunojep-mofujalabijagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jordanmooredesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740665/5121100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hudsonjewellery.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/japizipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rylcult.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379409/fetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wisconsinbaroque.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740191/4aeb84.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/1/0434/0681/9493/files/55868528461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1357/0709/files/garogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2545/4488/files/menetabovurupukolenuxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8208/7576/files/fotasuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8532/files/94395549643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9074/8316/files/wowilagulojumejozubalaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botudurodakokebavexosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7211/7141/files/boxoxolazusuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3196/9438/files/lanosifuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0675/4970/files/68432847744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0235/4070/files/xajezatiwavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0183/8757/files/16651484741.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000702a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x702A 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 95267637e1df655388913888fc18c7378997009c69146c1830cc6ae27160ede0
font_01_sfnt_off00008237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8237 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 97bad34667d4c0196fb3c5f4804ba729a08938a8f74fb65a8759a7e9f7bcb201
font_02_sfnt_off0000a5ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5EC 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 184efd0e138a9418359f6897f9ac56b5cd93cafbd57abf30711ac2aee7e18832