Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7388547bb206e011…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 241d93d41b9b3d0d5b4981018950fb2b SHA-1: d98af239dac7311daf07000c5d02a9b90cf8c1fa SHA-256: 7388547bb206e0112b34261b8928c319256648a9eeec2672878786f49f43402e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to mimic legitimate content. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=book+calculus+of+variations+pdf, is flagged as malicious and likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same redirector URL, indicating its central role in the attack. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious redirector is being used to deliver a payload or phish users.

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=book+calculus+of+variations+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mavismakes.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740490/1242344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.happysleepermattress.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816091/3919339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesterlingcastle.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383949/xududitazut-mukimixuxajeku-vomavajal-vusumepesufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miharijavec.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739004/gavuwifevape.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/1/0435/9510/4424/files/poroleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8896/0933/files/17337683933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/park_big_blue_book_of_bicycle_repair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1844/5223/files/6297421535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9050/8960/files/93545564664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0256/8599/files/vomezovekumawoguloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7240/4118/files/macroeconomics_19th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1378/3203/files/kenaduviwufogiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8678/2369/files/fonowogavefiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3288/files/pelojomivowawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5110/6972/files/zoserolatulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7482/8953/files/genidigaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8641/3985/files/68650513997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9838/9145/files/13559639350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0916/2907/files/41801447395.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_off00004fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FBE 5324 bytes
SHA-256: f07a7af621957c62557830553e7d82cc6d95162af81d59774dbfb061cafb9e7b
font_01_sfnt_off000061ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61EA 10144 bytes
SHA-256: a5e609e8374528de3e0f3d962ca59886721b2816ee371eabd9fba4b297af7c49