Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f62d138b48f994f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:04:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f4dd5ab684e4a8bf949565b6f97390cd SHA-1: 9df23291a34e69baf986d66f835247403687418b SHA-256: 9f62d138b48f994f609dbf977e7d386c7bd64bc34ab81feeb8dd46f29e45a2db
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bwv+998+pdf+guitare+allegro+pdf'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=bwv+998+pdf+guitare+allegro+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.insideoutoutdoors.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740463/29e3cf.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/1/0428/5412/1635/files/nabard_bank_exam_study_material.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8575/8628/files/duvojujebuvimemejafuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/3918/9142/files/mokoroditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0065/9100/files/tofakokiwizulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1682/2679/files/zarodelivukabilelewepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1760/1181/files/66516071304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0361/6165/files/29696067797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6020/8540/files/54529151658.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FE2 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 73d9a9596cdce7565b3d7ebbd337b613976070af895fdd29ef82e9c849671f1a
font_01_sfnt_off00007300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7300 14616 bytes
SHA-256: 30d25d9dc302ac3e369236bed913274a231cf5f5abad354aa4d1ed7c4230e3e7