Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73fd6fc816670d4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 05:53:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c01eb041fc1bd95907cd2b6930804f47 SHA-1: c963cd3ea024268d5e3de3b2bf93a454a5f84f1f SHA-256: 73fd6fc816670d4b946a2fb7632169cdd8c66d102a0ac4456d8bdc9f846f6e07
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=arpeggione+sonata+guitar+pdf, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and redirector suggests a phishing or scam campaign.

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=arpeggione+sonata+guitar+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.readnd.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740502/savejefoxevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thomashechtpiano.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682754/bebezilaluvaboz-kufegimilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bluelotusmehndi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813134/1530276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carloshoyt.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380707/xunapinefopufuburuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobulo.tomwellereditor.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741555/kuribusabekiwogo.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/1/0434/2457/9736/files/remiwurobekibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4216/files/fatolipiniruroxetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0088/9507/files/canterbury_tales_general_prologue_modern_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8113/8343/files/xifezifodabufofefineki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46946939033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5409/4743/files/95005541755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3928/4645/files/56553509254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7759/9383/files/hurst_nclex_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/befexazubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5281/0911/files/peposuwukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/94945690759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7426/3963/files/mexixorafedifoxugaveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gibowutobarifokegibig.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
🗂 Part of campaign: bluelotusmehndi.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005cdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CDB 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 4c34c29046564d130cd6de06c4bb076ad93e87d03e4a7ceb4283d266ac565188
font_01_sfnt_off00006e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E7F 10488 bytes
SHA-256: e890289efee4b44b2cf171b5299a399ec3ac167ddcd3353d85e6d96d0b6bd1e3