Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2500fb7a7f90490…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8477fced4a002f94f12e49f529f3e767 SHA-1: c5098b678bc6f1819fc30a815129bdb673a76261 SHA-256: d2500fb7a7f904902b7c54e9293ea10f7c9723f9635de751e06aa0447a59891e
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a link farm and a specific malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'branch manager application format' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, points to a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=branch+manager+application+format, which is a known malicious redirector.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=branch+manager+application+format In PDF document text
    • http://zivegafip.longedgepress.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776021/732e5feb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legedore.angkorvetclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/6ee3cbc.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/1/0428/3239/6447/files/66068872470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9585/8088/files/27010366704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/bajamorotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3750/7240/files/32238448252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5622/6716/files/car_repair_manuals_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dogudanivivakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4551/7469/files/56096055103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1197/6855/files/steven_universe_season_5_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4102/9276/files/business_proposal_keynote_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6154/2054/files/1999_toyota_tacoma_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2308/1378/files/69174803664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9741/5077/files/hidden_camera_without_icon_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2182/2120/files/treatment_of_diarrhea_in_child.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_off000079cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CC 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 20602fcd18315b8f2d6cd0988d8c8b7c2bd9e6722667d1e9f0c0b0b21304ca3e
font_01_sfnt_off00008b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B9E 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 21281a08ae28edb377e18d106a127eecf351310710e04ed2754f6c8a8e37b7b6