Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5369b8797f30ec7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 07:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b6483d9a747166ed315a86f5508218c3 SHA-1: 92979a894b40c7e3e847a485699814e1b150f14a SHA-256: c5369b8797f30ec76a270b9ae1499f3bdccd07ce3845261b69dd8799f234fb8a
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded external links, many of which are to PDF files hosted on Shopify. This suggests a link farm strategy, likely to manipulate search engine results. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=catholic+daily+prayers+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' heuristic indicates that the document may also contain instructions for executing commands using Windows scripting tools, potentially to download and execute further payloads.

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.com/pify?keyword=catholic+daily+prayers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.smiths2ottawa.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164153/fofikezet_dazewemepa_nikumalan_baworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.getsumcharters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438313/tavefofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuwub.ichocurlyhorses.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/5633a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uplift.ccsdtitle1.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606169/8711873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chriscundy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380480/98d03cadcac6c.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/1/0432/7663/2214/files/10229884752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8524/1245/files/bureaucratic_theory_max_weber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6577/6030/files/sosovalopakiratufisafira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4966/2117/files/aaa_triptik_planner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/24837295671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3770/4867/files/elite_coriolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3279/files/55025233440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2060/6885/files/zaxijuferezowikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2821/8010/files/befurologuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5143/1574/files/the_axiom_of_choice_thomas_jech.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0560/6049/files/antioxidants_journal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4117/7256/files/laboratory_diagnosis_of_meningitis.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_off000062ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62FF 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 43311ca96401355a9a22283fb28b94d5741f576a2b89ea23f28f642f955bf0b5
font_01_sfnt_off000074d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74D7 10088 bytes
SHA-256: 188cb86524b58e75140ed943125e5d3fadae10041957897e78b0a525521322b8