Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a566f6c786ba7f1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 19:20:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 469d0b1fa9e02f88d740f845a541d8de SHA-1: f3307548acd005605d75b6ff94a3404b26446bfb SHA-256: a566f6c786ba7f1d91b771bb229c5a2ac9a150bb6430ff2b72479852fc87221a
194 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.ru/pify?keyword=lee+county+business+license'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt.

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.ru/pify?keyword=lee+county+business+license In PDF document text
    • http://files.puldinauto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775850/6576328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cintiadana.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636692/fonodaxe-tegori-xulabube-nagesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.musicinthenineties.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636907/wodamuxunidepunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sugarloafmountainracing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/6050407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.katiejacksonbeautyworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813904/zojuseven.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/1/0429/7339/7145/files/40484174179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3015/1330/files/95899579110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/61066914906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9037/files/pibiduxorolewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6500/7509/files/21995249308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5476/files/ditepopiguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1675/7153/files/55917066162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3544/3871/files/nigewagowejabadibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6213/2897/files/91977518020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vunazazaxukatokezidabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8103/1064/files/zexedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/botoxu.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_off000066e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66E6 4668 bytes
SHA-256: 031f4022ed205548b8d0f9be7e69bb1938baf5ddcbafdab4c2c261185006b7cf
font_01_sfnt_off000076ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76ED 10288 bytes
SHA-256: edf4e65ea462f9f7cbed60c88be81e5d7433ef02c07d44777986927227c6ba07