Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b546183a9ded96c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 14:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 761a41a22069d268e37c5f2622b6163e SHA-1: 96de3fad4d69c0cc183f36570aa731725ff584fb SHA-256: b546183a9ded96c7ed1de97d7db0ab53f8dfd620ed6673bcb216d45597a0cda5
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, designed to obscure the ultimate destination. One critical heuristic identified a direct link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes the same topic as the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link.

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/wb?keyword=anatomy%20of%20human%20bones%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.egpsinc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453943/5377135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwuv.lblscientific.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/4056704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buckinghamshirelandscapegardeners.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/4747481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dufaf.steelcityselfdefense.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/bavunakadevutu_jajokedirimeper_kefaziji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mariebyrdsproul.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813458/rorakosinur_zovakenogeno_forebizozulorod.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/1/0430/9378/6791/files/nevaxebuweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4881/0149/files/gusazefadokuwepoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8668/3037/files/zuxenemawilezulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5397/3657/files/catalogue_caesar_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8914/files/24425868633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0765/3526/files/brady_bmp21_plus_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/82866478314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5009/9107/files/fatozawavomesesanexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6828/3294/files/90647915151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6825/2565/files/xenalutadeweku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0083/7782/files/depofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7949/7896/files/congenital_heart_disease_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6045/2760/files/gowoviziwe.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_off00005d30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D30 5384 bytes
SHA-256: e6d1114c1eeb52f1b810715becde43bdfa147952d775f96e54ed5dd01e34faf6
font_01_sfnt_off00006f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F5A 9340 bytes
SHA-256: cf95eca6e0426ed1b4f165afa0bc364496e1471ca8a7f2c536b027e6fc162f19