Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 563e230a083bb8ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0f764b551e0a3f7074b823aea0c056e SHA-1: 4960b642d0bf3ecb14361b6abb38c2e7eb6b080b SHA-256: 563e230a083bb8ea29cdb979755e9ed7713908636ba327e344b8a564682e5f71
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to shopify.com domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and keywords suggesting a lure for movie-related content. The presence of numerous links, including a malicious redirector, indicates a link farm or phishing attempt designed to lead users to harmful sites.

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=shawshank+redemption+movie++filmyzilla In PDF document text
    • http://files.bouquetcreekequestrian.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/jugugelavuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijovok.conservingcentralindia.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/1871336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meghancaprez.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814553/1728256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.q-avery.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969265/2821098.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/1/0437/3138/6529/files/dezotoxubirake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5341/4565/files/bibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5165/5076/files/gijugajifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0992/3480/files/75668790988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4730/2806/files/bloodlines_book_1_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3747/4472/files/sejaparusevojuluvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5778/2690/files/gofonapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2732/files/wolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6913/7305/files/assessment_strategies_for_teachers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6547/5229/files/jigokivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6033/8586/files/kavibo.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_off00005f64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F64 5752 bytes
SHA-256: 34bc63111b71f0699e25c6beafb42410d7854a32c95404e99888fb00819aac3a
font_01_sfnt_off000072ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72EF 14196 bytes
SHA-256: 5e0de7605ca3d60948d1d0708f66dce2af0c07374bae7c23dfbce70db567db1f

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