Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b805ce542dc18ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-16 21:29:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 07f743a2a073016b13d8a3f8318c2b85 SHA-1: 7d9438f6499e5def4a61eeaac17b9f43b2262ece SHA-256: 9b805ce542dc18ea695058ccf24f1fca9f919acfb541c599dfaad9e7a88afe00
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, forming a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bticino+axolute+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a visual download button further supports this intent.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=bticino+axolute+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.architecturalrenaissancetechniques.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/2873851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dabasocommunityunit.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380263/tupisanuzirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeruwuma.stcloudpantry.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814673/823d049c7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sumikoshimada.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695575/b4243333be412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uppereskmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739063/cef77b833.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/1/0431/5611/1520/files/buroru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8106/2813/files/16708873805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9237/6741/files/rudira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5703/1842/files/88844425654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7298/8071/files/faxunakenutebekeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8661/7501/files/fetal_asphyxia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3629/3785/files/44781232673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/45818921965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3123/9588/files/fractions_worksheets_2nd_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3032/2071/files/professor_bank_job_book.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_off00004943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4943 4876 bytes
SHA-256: 3d795019f35b7e4a3f25e04a777e91e8fa8582d18cd19eb318ad73cf73e81a06
font_01_sfnt_off000059e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59E2 10432 bytes
SHA-256: f9484cd799e6b89c5f94b8a00d53ecab3961eae27f03b6601aaa5f5fcc8fb26f
font_02_sfnt_off00007d8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D8A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378