Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58856aaf345657ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:55:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a4ad4152ec1a32053106c7a36c072079 SHA-1: 5eaa5a174332b79e45dba8e6bfd0e7abcfc6af75 SHA-256: 58856aaf345657abc16416e86b24167fc8452b50e26568198aa8a609c23736d0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dictionnaire+des+abr%25C3%25A9viations+m%25C3%25A9dicales+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to a medical abbreviations dictionary. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=dictionnaire+des+abr%25C3%25A9viations+m%25C3%25A9dicales+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mylifeisajourney.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857890/3522920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fugisoxep.oscarxavierdelsebastien.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/paperidoxomemodogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xeliwa.atomiccarcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407493/noseri_livitoruxavo_kadenimosawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cahabariverdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739463/6217805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roundrocklions.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380773/mawagipejegasafuwad.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/1/0439/1796/7528/files/kumuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9229/5332/files/60979967502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4827/files/wewuwulodurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/pujidifovanebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4731/2789/files/aptitude_shortcut_tricks_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9965/9176/files/20_hp_briggs_and_stratton_engine_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6080/3237/files/genetic_engineering_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9565/4554/files/42069246192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3259/2040/files/rizegonemofasabolulomada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7675/5349/files/jaguar_x_type_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3563/files/23194938580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7197/7110/files/b._ed_books_in_gujarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2966/6724/files/becker_final_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6870/3398/files/discussion_paper.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14847 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 7932c16ed3a58c3e2d6ceb1ecad100b5380accd14aa9d62b5c2038229e99bd2f
font_01_sfnt_off00015b25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B25 19048 bytes
SHA-256: 502f1dfd3cb27eed10be00558bcc520a7189f252a2db24e726a42c4a3d8312a6
font_02_sfnt_off00019209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19209 16160 bytes
SHA-256: f80b9f84d6ea16074f67da7a904ab41e14e5a44612b81a97f195d72f9bd2a496