Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a362505e5d528ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 06:37:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6f04e2f0c4df6bcca21018780eb3a2c2 SHA-1: aea3bed918e47ad6542339f5a2028423219bc275 SHA-256: 9a362505e5d528ed77e8f73a9943f59532a70f6d2741f25dcd370317351c6d03
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of outbound links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. The embedded URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=parozone+bleach+safety+data+sheet is a primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a redirector to a malicious payload or phishing page. 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=parozone+bleach+safety+data+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.arthighway.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/tudanutilukazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewaraso.d-aleksandar.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856072/7fe695da2346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.offthedirtroad.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969865/588005.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/1/0436/6077/1481/files/5205220768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0723/6503/files/fufanajuxurerafidokevuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8130/9083/files/9986024848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9538/3446/files/lapudimubazutizonofemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3486/1987/files/53535260757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fuwakuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7732/7265/files/football_manager_2015_online_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2039/3375/files/genetically_modified_animals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1806/7876/files/29004598833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6978/3720/files/52948751608.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_off0000711c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x711C 5400 bytes
SHA-256: c2d21bcd8f7ae23398f436c1560ac01070be0125fb7d053cfdcef059ca909e80
font_01_sfnt_off00008378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8378 9972 bytes
SHA-256: ac54a5dda2f4332b67ff27194fd4e772d2a1a6080337bed0aaae82a39a475235

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