Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 576a108b96211947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9dd1755560d56cae20694e6d515d1ff1 SHA-1: 2a3f8fd5265476cd1ab775d1a60c9767bccd8c2c SHA-256: 576a108b96211947583633fc972db7dcdd1ab2c9760f36bfd3c2342dfda675c8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing a malicious redirector link and a link farm. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=super+mario+land+music+sheet` is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, which is characteristic of SEO poisoning or link farm techniques to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

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=super+mario+land+music+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.cowgirlcoutureny.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437464/8c93845a8ef18.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gixijuz.joel-nichols.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/5926282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.surisreno.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164054/757544.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/1/0436/4913/8846/files/41427544931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4578/9600/files/9927745459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3071/5288/files/95293565985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xazijejizamoketabuguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8747/0494/files/38326023916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1681/2706/files/19348461851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2121/2570/files/50895276850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3417/1800/files/woranazuzozipokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0574/7108/files/low_back_pain_exercises_kaiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7245/4810/files/massey_ferguson_50_manual.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_off00004e11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E11 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 316ffc32fddbef3309c9308bea81778d8e84dd47a5d884d4e8267cd4167ca2b2
font_01_sfnt_off00006044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6044 14968 bytes
SHA-256: 27e2386eb6e2df73f200dafc7721eab6c7982d1c76f7ba5bb4e1337d28633c00