Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bed5587e5db111fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 10:33:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 924920bfb6d2dd6fe962dfd5b9e14bd4 SHA-1: 6bd57d5d4a0e23ef8f18fe23c79159d12f1deac2 SHA-256: bed5587e5db111fe62a5159f5b4a5333f0bfb2a023a58127cc8ec5d2d65657d1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=the+secret+2006'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive link within the PDF.

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=the+secret+2006 In PDF document text
    • http://files.topflightsoccertours.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776406/0652de9070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ignitemybizz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380008/2652519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shopamityvilleapothecary.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406649/raxamafubuliwofuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.techsavvi.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682731/cd13a5c6ce81c2.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/1/0429/1752/7715/files/zazidedetimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5934/6582/files/96304524473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9391/6837/files/29197098301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3347/5737/files/zumigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5548/7905/files/57461086568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1491/3191/files/42542158781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9827/4978/files/zififigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7908/9824/files/zifaragas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zorugeligix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0144/files/mujunekoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9341/7366/files/62549383370.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_off0000a0ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0EF 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 4991010ec63219e0f96adc648b511730ad50d8c3e680585ca86182857a578328
font_01_sfnt_off0000b201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB201 10872 bytes
SHA-256: feb3a305f5a95bd9b8b6ad316145f339a20af1d7e8180befb41f6e005ed012cc