Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73c2359d549e4e43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-09-12 12:11:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5bff23122bcead342147e31e26ae3617 SHA-1: 9b4c5091499f7ffdf979da9de4ab6dcb6c1737f2 SHA-256: 73c2359d549e4e43a7007a74939605e4ccecff8956c3407a8a05994aa446c9b2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is `https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=bigmouth+strikes+again+sheet+music`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or content redirection strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious redirection attack.

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.me/wix?keyword=bigmouth+strikes+again+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.thegreatdivepodcast.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776054/87ebe39b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.baroque-encounter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813409/6912995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zebaba.fresnofools.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/27265b489bbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shabdapress.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378975/7168772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mbsportnutritionnetwork.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070351/ruzosowud.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/1/0429/5376/9126/files/volitional_form_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7011/9318/files/dazadebivurojogaramajedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8713/4882/files/25926923177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4639/5304/files/mubepikaviziporipapepofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1832/0034/files/jizulefozamabaposinorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8acad3_2371cc63325d4c66a019f2fde58472e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/906e9f_b4542d68c9004fb7b5b08b1c950ab5da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4421/6730/files/php_scrape_html.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2993/4758/files/aitsl_teaching_standards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5066/2053/files/smartsheet_stock_value.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5593/8720/files/xiwiminukulebixijelajo.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_off00004b96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B96 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 911db321d9d785449534b2d5829105eb699766b96c2ef8d14916267ad11eea68
font_01_sfnt_off00005d75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D75 10284 bytes
SHA-256: ed941d28f836aeeb61d7fe39b8e061f7b5959df5e5bdf3c91085bd85d25af80e