Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d4423aa06316f7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:17:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5c4fe8cdbfeead906fe44f9919d7257c SHA-1: c491a1dc0ec66119a3470eec1f3e8357e08c3b9c SHA-256: 9d4423aa06316f7b89336e55b1f5795e78e9972c2c9c685ec4abf5976b8a70f3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link that appears to be a call-to-action for downloading software. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=lexis+audio+editor+mod+apk+free', redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The document also functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure reinforces the deceptive nature of the document.

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.cc/pify?keyword=lexis+audio+editor+mod+apk+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.keahisiberianhuskies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739747/8768405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokuwij.carsandcrochet.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070314/fofimoserixufa-bunipanib-fuburebuneko.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/1/0436/2534/9273/files/5634725850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6497/4742/files/census_information_by_tract.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8797/8913/files/tusawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3768/7962/files/dujomejiduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1470/9663/files/gumezaxabijefusikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4697/7179/files/74444376442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/carb_counting_food_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6805/4949/files/7454974476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1395/6007/files/best_guitar_vst.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5572/6238/files/vomojulodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0381/3781/files/17306285017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4575/6821/files/tadug.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
🗂 Part of campaign: thestorystudiohk.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ACB 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac807f50a382e67ffcbcf764bb5c7162b1be82eba7256eba18b39b018361a0c
font_01_sfnt_off00007c83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C83 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_02_sfnt_off00008511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8511 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 59cd8603e6054d972d5502b3e489c43f3c08d6648dd0743fc62fb98d40ec8854