Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7973f021e61c5114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 08:33:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e60fc5d719afbbfa53a00d81ea4172a SHA-1: 532cdeebc94d75fe47fd08831fff42415b50ef71 SHA-256: 7973f021e61c5114e255a51a44e163b704fcc0afba44e43b767f317ade1a2fac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector service, which in turn points to various PDF files hosted on Shopify. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=kitchenaid+artisan+coffee+machine+manual, suggesting a lure to download a manual. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify links, indicating a link farm designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious or scam-related content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple malicious redirector links is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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=kitchenaid+artisan+coffee+machine+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.brycedancecompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813730/fb40b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.manningartclass.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856134/fuviweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.soulsistersparanormal.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969204/1711769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotake.knowbiblefactsfromfiction.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/nadorejaribugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7162/6659/files/17569245999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1479/1068/files/bokuvekugivijateva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9619/5737/files/psychology_experiment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7723/7917/files/terrorismo_historia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4135/6967/files/dictionnaire_anglais_franais_larousse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sovonuvebapade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4922/0256/files/chemistry_book_class_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5752/1574/files/87876879130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5190/7237/files/brother_hl-_2140_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5435/1015/files/introduction_to_ant_colony_optimization.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0504/1051/files/bernette_334ds_instruction_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/fivovonej.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A8D 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 37e53820bb382ad8fce7110abc9baa18bb29d742e90c6fda1c5c5ee3e65517d7
font_01_sfnt_off00007bb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BB1 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 93e364cbfebcccfbf10106657b17f0afd97171625753b583e3eccd9fbf9a90eb
font_02_sfnt_off00009f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F37 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361