Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a54f3e9ae21ec52e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97dfefa6e9c6d7694a809131add21a31 SHA-1: 252225b41dbe957eca94f863549dd3f0d00f0bf5 SHA-256: a54f3e9ae21ec52e4975dafdb14dfe19c14fffd63ba6c2d211613d0af2709b83
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=advantage+software+eclipse+manual'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other URLs hosted on Shopify and various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The presence of numerous external PDF links further supports the link farm heuristic.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=advantage+software+eclipse+manual In PDF document text
    • http://rafix.leaguesforpickleball.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/1329864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jetinipuz.ttandeuropemotorcycleadventures.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813834/16b02fdc8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.klarahorackova.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437702/zunetamilezuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subezepip.stayinginvienna.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/13dff3f1.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/1/0430/3070/8385/files/37158473933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8056/4392/files/86017433337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8085/1362/files/dana_300_twin_stick.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2732/3301/files/54455513686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8865/files/jetovokulesiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/davunaxejapezuxipuwuwozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2520/2332/files/oxford_learner_s_thesaurus_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4818/1666/files/10914439575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9811/2167/files/tetutopasinibemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2111/5298/files/duzuzapawomibubuxidowoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3586/4736/files/search_only_fors.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovovowegafakaroseras.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: klarahorackova.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7172 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 01df771c4fdeed3e3bd008112ae061c5c01bb06c8b3c413692bae944f3f9ad81
font_01_sfnt_off0000848f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x848F 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 8599e23287f66bdfbf170593f7b367636a5ba791aefc7b80240054789950f460