Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 573e5d48c695e969…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ed7c12cebaf1082645fe50c9cd67f10 SHA-1: 4879da5dadf0c4cfbcd96ee9042f0864ff5b3e67 SHA-256: 573e5d48c695e969a1ee0ea9772b9082d8f27c119a069274443136ca889ac38f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=changing+pdf+to+word+online+free'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to a fake online conversion tool. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs, while some are benign, indicates a pattern of using legitimate platforms to host or link to malicious content.

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=changing+pdf+to+word+online+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.mnjrc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874110/7734714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pinegrovecogop.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874318/de351d21ce3806f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wendyscountrymarket.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740053/7f46bfe9b3304.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/1/0437/1437/9930/files/97323417422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2959/files/semiconductor_device_fundamentals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5597/0454/files/52611574428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8452/9310/files/tarikufegazuvivokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7578/8184/files/91755894435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6221/3273/files/finding_angle_between_two_vectors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4978/8327/files/kenosefodibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2476/7400/files/women_within_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5242/5631/files/berejajarobigepupewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9554/6273/files/47573511845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6900/4190/files/umbrella_academy_comics_fr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7034/0772/files/xonanimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5123/8047/files/pdf_to_word_converter_download_adobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1747/0101/files/menunutuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2370/3969/files/73062298934.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_off00007148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7148 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 122fa9a1daeeaff44a573b3b586156b13aa24739839d9591309605db29e213c0
font_01_sfnt_off00008269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8269 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 8b79d01a02a602428503fe5d7b0fe814e15c3abe18ca089662fa16f2fa1da09d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4C9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e