Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d43cf951f62e9b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.8 KB Created: 2020-07-30 06:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab314e23d549e71c4a994fa9f5cab678 SHA-1: b272bf3833ded46a62e87c20012b42403b56618a SHA-256: d43cf951f62e9b7ad412a2d776c3fd4c8f28793b5ff4318db760eeb0e0bf50bf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=personality+disorders+list+pdf', is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'personality disorders list pdf'. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to obscure the ultimate destination.

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.com/pify?keyword=personality+disorders+list+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jdwgardens.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379948/xodasu_wexotijejo_zozifunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elliottkronenfeld.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437319/1a1f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.livegentlewellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069992/2192011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.karlyperez.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814714/puvesu-dilakinenisam-maxajake.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/1/0432/4930/3720/files/60911328151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0412/4580/files/98478127978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/65095851672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1547/8176/files/62736964028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4909/8148/files/75134187956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4826/files/zuzazufefikizivuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6653/8649/files/31951708114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7214/files/loledulekumipokuxizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5469/3529/files/12349457858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3927/files/tegoxoxaramelodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8021/files/desel.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000163f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163F7 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 99e53a43cd352f927b55b17d32dc361552c718cebcc94c15740a51a90686cb66
font_01_sfnt_off000174c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174C3 15856 bytes
SHA-256: b08dba361a9f2dc04bf1691bc73b242bd9a1a9df53f17f62f3c679b3e8ae8c75

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