Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a1fcf39d2665f1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 677a1878463355c707fef659b5179784 SHA-1: 320e668ebca408135c9cd4db986f9197049822c2 SHA-256: 5a1fcf39d2665f1bcdaabd1b1141af956915b3ea8e2edc9a7a2a0cbc8c60cdd8
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=shining+soul+2+fusing+guide'. This indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, with the first URL being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6237/0210/files/advanced_sorting_and_searching_algorithms.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs and appears to be a lure. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of execution behavior.

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=shining+soul+2+fusing+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.msjkeeler.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/natonigelajokoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasadab.thechessmasterandthelibrarian.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637014/db59d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sterlingfaubel.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163838/7e3b316b59a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guvalituf.devabeauty.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407469/sifut-sifevitewolunu-zavusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.conceptarianworx.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384489/4247906.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/1/0431/6237/0210/files/advanced_sorting_and_searching_algorithms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9154/6532/files/peter_pan_and_wendy_play_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0545/1160/files/benosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3150/9664/files/66450123280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9180/2777/files/geospatial_analysis_a_comprehensive_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9423/7589/files/pitejiwapifarubixalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0564/8807/files/pdf_ebook_reader_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0292/1111/files/getidezusonajimanenagazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8900/0616/files/poserepejuxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1596/files/atypical_disrupted_wake_echoes.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_off0000affb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFFB 3904 bytes
SHA-256: 96acf5139475c522335ce31b541ae947e4dc35a627a69f3881c58aa38af28ca7
font_01_sfnt_off0000bdd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDD8 5096 bytes
SHA-256: 8c55c82368a5e885197589842793451f31f45f0d2571904ed157e4272f2782c1
font_02_sfnt_off0000cf2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF2C 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 50e71b92951ddc121f7be0b23e258f8a5c8e22138c2fda85b46691a053b3d32f