Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b5056b3a3731910…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 15:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 41226958bbfba1517d16a0527b85dd38 SHA-1: c38b7ab0c1dd85baef089516bfeecd1cb326779a SHA-256: 7b5056b3a37319100fefcacf60eab93fa79a87bd81d40f037dc2e6e7d31bd28a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to sheet music, and the embedded links lead to a large number of PDFs, indicating a link farm for SEO-based phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=a+certain+romance+bass+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.marksoftime.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739169/60d9c3ac326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drlaurienavinllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453255/bfb8a4ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.circleschools.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874522/a229d6639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kulanuicounseling.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969003/4699073.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/1/0433/8014/6343/files/lilolimowigekaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/vejigugifizuturiterox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0451/0887/files/zivalafusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5630/0186/files/wajepexutadesikakesuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/87277754858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1644/4315/files/1987_corvette_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4396/2532/files/74755616444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7658/2552/files/47238554722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5104/8357/files/radosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9316/4199/files/290365087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8564/3419/files/42900775490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lomapatigusobotatijizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7162/5621/files/ambaji_aarti_free_download_in_gujarati_free_download.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006c49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C49 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 5318f9aff5b118d4999a559741e01e8dce588f623b2c6de212ea1570b6705480
font_01_sfnt_off00007d19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D19 15272 bytes
SHA-256: b8d96281ffc1ba83d71d704414fd7f95b39bc20e56eb25b873980b4de5febfcb
font_02_sfnt_off0000acd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACD2 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd
font_03_sfnt_off0000c1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f