Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 973c815862457fad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 07:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1896f3e119a8d10becd90b4d1f47cb87 SHA-1: bdc7551c2bd9c47bd4b91941792a40b44b609887 SHA-256: 973c815862457fad0c79d0137691ab255da22ab24863ebab04ae6e5b27171574
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure instructing the user to enable macros or editing, a common technique to bypass security. It also features a mass external PDF link farm, with one critical link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=edit+pdf+text+in+mac+preview, which likely leads to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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=edit+pdf+text+in+mac+preview In PDF document text
    • http://dowore.spotonslgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070590/99454b0634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lefere.spaluxedayspa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406437/mimitok-tapajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bestoftimeswatch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379749/e4facd24be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sansmarket.co/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/1653043.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/1/0432/1227/5871/files/zosoxiketosinavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9007/6057/files/lefijopusujinanoguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/royal_dutch_shell_annual_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7761/5262/files/34216990872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3350/files/53907974840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8856/7706/files/91998869631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5102/3526/files/54038792901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/ridafusemiwarapime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/green_day_jaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9358/1212/files/buwogubavovozerotujepaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6309/6984/files/mukugarisawoluje.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_off000065f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65F5 4944 bytes
SHA-256: e2a08f560bf85ad955feb56c607d1579eed987c43c30bc4511933d6be31525de
font_01_sfnt_off000076b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76B6 10096 bytes
SHA-256: daec31fdad105387d9bb8dfd15a93ef04a60ec9d235795ead326c51d7a3730b5
font_02_sfnt_off00009974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9974 16460 bytes
SHA-256: 3d0607dae75728782b25c9d3429baeb9be3c38959204d25c826753ffeaddf657
font_03_sfnt_off0000af53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF53 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3