Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 becd4856a759c3e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-09-23 05:07:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 53898c85271a1d32d87ff84a2424314d SHA-1: 4fd117b5572990d6aaff39f87c07067c334b19a4 SHA-256: becd4856a759c3e732096438c22e64213ef6dfa79cc3b210a4d10d7d3875934f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, constituting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=grey+%2526+white+auto+salvage', is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous links, including those pointing to external PDFs on Shopify, suggests a lure to drive traffic to potentially malicious or deceptive content.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=grey+%2526+white+auto+salvage In PDF document text
    • http://rujopoton.cottageonthecrinancanal.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407588/4174418ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolabog.nollmannlab.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738591/7804c7a280f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garupem.powerglowfitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739081/8451589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiwukok.curlyrupuppets.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969279/546bea545341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masamizug.huongseng.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071114/tiwejoxin_jegapawifo.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/6814/6072/files/freestyle_2_street_basketball_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0105/2323/files/careers_in_computer_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2325/1094/files/xiloseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/medigubog.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4008/0025/files/megasquirt_tuning_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1703/4134/files/74218622514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478/8617/2326/files/47048038258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9701/2890/files/6997882364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5838/0450/files/android_studio_tutorial_w3schools.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5377/7047/files/34824168088.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_off00008c20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C20 4384 bytes
SHA-256: 339c54dd3c8eef2da596a617ee735f0fcde512532dd9a350c8ba76d4b8bd1854
font_01_sfnt_off00009b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B1B 10964 bytes
SHA-256: cba82df2a687fd1de388e1a7fe8f001357de32dfc51514e3ea276c8b44e09d40