Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d1427d047a3196a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 02:40:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9f7832d9a9bb12b587202d51955906cf SHA-1: 701311e2d4fbad7c781b8024ccc45b21b15473b1 SHA-256: 6d1427d047a3196a79ca2f7b9016d7b208e68b3fcc08ef37dc108ff5fcf0bf21
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to lure victims. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=two+letter+scrabble+words, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. 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=two+letter+scrabble+words In PDF document text
    • http://files.stevescustomtattoos.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871745/f392d08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bradrussellmusic.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637218/tidoguwosi_bosura_wotefopaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lecheminantbooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860938/49e51134f872f2.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/1/0430/8697/1029/files/89473217738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/jafotubigetadita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2132/files/zedekukivezomegiropogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/47878122177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7243/7910/files/53073847066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1031/files/58803738275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4732/1751/files/1913256598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8434/9591/files/6881982638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5934/7618/files/94935172628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4541/2261/files/gopixakagaxunowubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9537/4489/files/python_ascii_animation.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_off0000649f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x649F 5116 bytes
SHA-256: adb20487424d6250edcabb571aecda99421166d81307f50f3ccbd11339babe31
font_01_sfnt_off00007620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7620 10684 bytes
SHA-256: eb7403fea17286f63e2b88cd9ac201b2f6e8b97e564d71a7b6abea72a997f32e