Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95a2c9566894811d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 23:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e292d2d4186659ead887cc824cdfcfa SHA-1: 72afd629e6f36668000166a937dd8dca99f2aeb5 SHA-256: 95a2c9566894811d368a969dd913df676f29f84ff99f07334ca12e43619daba3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a mass of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify domains but point to potentially malicious content. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=dell+compellent+storage+center+configuration+guide'. The document body, though heavily corrupted, appears to contain metadata related to the 'Dell compellent storage center configuration guide', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous PDF links indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

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=dell+compellent+storage+center+configuration+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.shopatzekes.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070713/sejuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fodeti.nigelgorskiconsulting.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/7805eb6002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goodworks.org.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163904/1033298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kelvynkoning.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776077/mizefapagalarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://:lt;emdc_web_server_port.emdc_hostname_ipIn PDF document text
    • https://:lt;emdc_web_server_portIn 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/1/0434/6265/6152/files/minion_turkey_disguise_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2210/6271/files/alkalinity_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8619/8424/files/pukonefirexasomawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2816/9375/files/85050388232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9826/0124/files/kupekavunisupefefiwujudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1625/files/80702418866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2274/3709/files/kuat_medan_listrik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8755/9833/files/change_active_to_passive_voice_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3556/5978/files/41248289111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53522836856.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000654e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x654E 5476 bytes
SHA-256: ca9ab7e9c12fa8670ecd54af53f3cbce7a26038ab76864936bafc8d644528753
font_01_sfnt_off000077ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77CE 13252 bytes
SHA-256: b075ad1d93f41160bad15564686bc4df81e055a1229c4646049473dd457e4f0e

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