Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f71e6d84bf60e95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 09:18:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2a81452463d2ad396ecf5c69283db624 SHA-1: 64db7f36b8c6ff4676aabfedd4ab8baf75a62b52 SHA-256: 5f71e6d84bf60e9533bc686053a38c4d0463673e1fa06ca215e83b62de72e808
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=a+flowering+tree+summary+pdf`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of many links to external PDFs, some hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=a+flowering+tree+summary+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.glowwellnesscollective.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857112/eeb9520f6b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rhinotruckparts.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814510/bedulemijisonepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midevevi.sunnydawngrooming.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/18823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jacksonpaintinginc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453302/74e0588d0bd387c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nudnikdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438418/841a7.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/1/0431/5774/9917/files/guxarapugumewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1129/2827/files/23899415113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5121/9104/files/13505035357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mowojemabedeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6908/6623/files/79569255157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7437/8142/files/6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9020/files/vocabulary_building_with_antonyms_synonyms_homophones_and_homographs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74098669839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5467/6645/files/gifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5702/9018/files/install_part_rh_20141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6395/7918/files/45226042169.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B17 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 14293394d6fa3f89e9f1f71ea14c03acafe0431be29aec4ed967eec8de896f9e
font_01_sfnt_off00008e03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E03 11376 bytes
SHA-256: df6e6f9e7ae95df1f3974b0cc77489449aab0eb29f5defef62b2a645b7159adb

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