Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d9f90afd086a613…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 04:22:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5481a85cc91ba19259e4488c947bebdd SHA-1: 5afe4ff14d3b34d3c3ffb0ae8bce5541802c4d26 SHA-256: 8d9f90afd086a61356dc4008ba68a25e27d6ff2771c6cdd1b87ab5571dd893fd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a manual for a Crosley record player. The redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=crosley+record+player+manual'. The document also contains a large number of links to PDFs hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=crosley+record+player+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsburtons.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871568/rotuxodili_mufodirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.americangourdsociety.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379054/1049847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whlaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/f8f8d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.extracoolerart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/latafodi-ziwovom-nebuxixibos-kobuxaneruzeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dursleymalechoir.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738484/vewefuga.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/1/0432/3858/8573/files/94120337421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/30206224319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5101/6601/files/vakovupovagafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4607/5542/files/73950316918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8574/9665/files/gewetemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0522/2822/files/43316853026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8095/6569/files/mumuwepusedopigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9137/8854/files/37806322824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3141/3414/files/xutezotaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4916/4693/files/82709042201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6143/5813/files/fugufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5432/4117/files/porajolilafelopupujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0862/9659/files/femibagigifujilepofof.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_off00004bc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BC4 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 7a6f85db6cf00cfe9b6f03f223569f86198b80a074148777f1c0888e5beb19c3
font_01_sfnt_off00005cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CF7 9808 bytes
SHA-256: df4b3d4e8ec1bbfd2cbd6f4e4d90c195ba96894f2f9781d23102654579a07329
font_02_sfnt_off00007e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E59 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34