Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 562f1d0cb4176d84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 08:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7b25aea93f5d623624131bd7c703a486 SHA-1: e20b7d51fc19670e84b3910be69de867ecca1be8 SHA-256: 562f1d0cb4176d843e8dbd8c012474c248b1a216ddc1bf7121fc229601e916f6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to shopify.com domains, likely for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'carboplatin us prescribing information' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=carboplatin+us+prescribing+information In PDF document text
    • http://files.hotelharihari.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069819/3213974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.4l4lionsstore.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482954/7881346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.masterpieceonlineacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/14b268d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bradleyhughesgolfforum.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409755/kafejato-giripisof-lulirifunexupu-dogetalita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojom.jonathanacollura.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874601/dasuduj_xojisexikakor.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/1/0428/0975/3767/files/71006668622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6810/4602/files/59197041885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5712/5278/files/wiwuzadedido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7133/1734/files/jusavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/0979/8307/files/vipezenovotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1820/6887/files/study_island_bot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4031/7350/files/40996951409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1242/1789/files/14944924856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7396/1126/files/puwititil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7297/0133/files/55035635350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/53611516681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9999/6839/files/65157459534.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_off00006fe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE7 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 2c2bd39ad28eb185b27d817070d708dabece13cfbc46f42a09f9533707896128
font_01_sfnt_off0000821a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x821A 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 814cb88f084d6e0e843730e35dd9348ae212f88030210fd975d49f02e94870f3
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8A5 16188 bytes
SHA-256: f3add10cb5264ffc2312056603d47c20aa7c01ee274f0078f7b30449eac44c9e