Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 585755dd217c4e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 02:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 071479879278622f6f9822e997a084a7 SHA-1: f439242fb8f9e629c36a620c7d4abf32523b2677 SHA-256: 585755dd217c4e8996f1071e8ad0ce1c8d8c775690d2b086774fa634bd80c950
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=aviation+francaise+magazine+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7019/2805/files/votatu.pdf' being the first listed. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'aviation francaise magazine pdf' and the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to disguise 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.cc/pify?keyword=aviation+francaise+magazine+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.gozamurai.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860060/9c8ebd73cec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wfbistro.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776795/3334411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.musemodelsdarwin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696351/7980892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ryegentrytrucking.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411199/varefozukak-fekolixujazizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.denvermindbodyessence.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740502/tixudumatevefutek.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/1/0434/7019/2805/files/votatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4603/4853/files/zetanufusimugufixowima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/list_of_adjectives_to_describe_food.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0710/6462/files/67745281824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0533/0083/files/sofifarusoxulinulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7695/1974/files/wotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8854/files/bulk_delete_twitter_likes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/divorce_application_form_qld.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5748/6753/files/medical_assistant_cover_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0234/6148/files/78907737322.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_off0000c1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1DF 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 35e1c154c21d8f14debe2c920502d22bc217555935ca760a78855538330b9826
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B9 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 267f8773e120741a1b7c0a1f2557b79997caec35103b0ac3aa57ff8e8d5fb596