Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 973b12c38c26471d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 20:49:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5adeded8e1d5cd82190adb24faf2ba5c SHA-1: a1bab1a9eabcba50454902c2da2dff571fc1f634 SHA-256: 973b12c38c26471d14f20d48cccc69e990182b5482bc199d012bc25915fd43ff
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=credit+suisse+wealth+report+2017'. Another heuristic indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Credit Suisse wealth report 2017' and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via malicious links within the PDF.

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=credit+suisse+wealth+report+2017 In PDF document text
    • http://files.davecameronphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606844/5238851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thejambalayashoppe.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398515/73a5ac06bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harvestharrisburg.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407067/jemawigufesijakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.victoria-security.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776511/mekog_jesatokasuzisi_mibilugorapumo_vukesogezafij.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/1/0441/0382/7608/files/50738343797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2076/0741/files/gemstone_of_bloodaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6895/4526/files/suwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9825/7048/files/bonemuzenomuvubusozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9223/0823/files/accuweather_vancouver_wa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8233/3851/files/57196776373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5104/9370/files/rilefufizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9729/2967/files/83037442179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0018/4477/files/ccna_routing_and_switching_lab_workbook_200_125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7327/4018/files/dodokugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/leremezipeliba.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_off00006394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6394 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 3cde1923dee0180bf08c32e94abeef2168d0cf31e7a834ab6936f8ade6272143
font_01_sfnt_off0000762c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x762C 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 52de1e9f888e95e67525bd70a05b1e8a97991287605f53b048ac27e3ee8937e2

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