Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58c26188da7a8b7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:04:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3202583f448e777f7937232a05921f0d SHA-1: dd1f825e84be4b6ba343a7ccf7b0893ef9436e96 SHA-256: 58c26188da7a8b7cfd9cb4080ab5445acf83ecec57d55b0c80629c869984d136
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to known malicious infrastructure at ttraff.cc. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Xbox one controller bluetooth' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=xbox+one+controller+bluetooth In PDF document text
    • http://files.ausneaks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738619/417303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bevpurduefineart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453253/4135604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.expressivelanguagecenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775516/mufezadofizegazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mytoepro.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406478/12ac3ab9.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuxovozukirofavekejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5793/7561/files/bisufusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8375/1831/files/50921429448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6404/9318/files/zorerudopovabukaguxetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7608/4117/files/gupezolinupesotebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7061/1861/files/77974835347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9101/7374/files/66991548378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9635/9580/files/46278335961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9966/1223/files/lab_technician_cover_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4920/5405/files/72318638411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4136/6951/files/37521241582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3754/8959/files/garobubamurotexizata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5353/1807/files/84218120910.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_off0000680f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x680F 4684 bytes
SHA-256: 2933a07e73465cd802a148d25e47e9a754848a65810be9e8c5dd47d99f7496d4
font_01_sfnt_off000077f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77F7 10048 bytes
SHA-256: df8655ceb100dfb7a97e9a497836fcadc43489cacba9e56cc339124a38ee5541