Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 572c434e405f6d8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 07:24:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f2ce8c046ad0322e1041a0c6e22e833d SHA-1: 588b5ea66a7a9d89955f2ba377e2897faa578a15 SHA-256: 572c434e405f6d8c311baa6d73f33a73c5345e0764830f4b1cd326afb38e2e9b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as legitimate content, but the primary link redirects to malicious infrastructure. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=calculus+by+howard+anton+5th+edition+pdf is part of a known malicious redirector chain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this malicious URL and several other benign-looking PDF links, likely to disguise the malicious intent. 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=calculus+by+howard+anton+5th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ave-design-co.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303359/mupuzoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.welchesterwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070718/8132347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.montanalanguageteachers.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379217/81740e7af12a7b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ridgewaygardendesign.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969334/leroxukedinune.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/1/0427/4028/5607/files/27241706374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4015/3505/files/91070111770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7400/9753/files/nopiwimubuwozomufoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8436/5476/files/4391980830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5870/files/zekanatibikorezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7028/3173/files/daisy_powerline_340_disassembly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5870/8118/files/pinivobilodiwozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3359/8880/files/45483737847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8201/4108/files/47708090386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7758/0453/files/hollow_knight_joni_s_blessing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61927850068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9869/3022/files/repabivuwegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5892/1621/files/gofonakivog.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_off00006be7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BE7 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 8a7bbba96be22c5e01e4c602ee85805fe9489d6edb0b5f6784283ec082850474
font_01_sfnt_off00007f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F09 10436 bytes
SHA-256: e4b11c20beb5b35101eb92e49ef7f3329b8ecd2c1c1e4d76119a11b54313cb20