Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5ac62da789cee46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 04:40:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bd935fe6449f8101352b03626095edac SHA-1: 0335ac42d995d94ed620199924d110171b2779a0 SHA-256: d5ac62da789cee46b8df21b53c4e15333e1ea7c7f1036f5952e94b4f8c3c3cd2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=a5+size+booklet+template'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be luring users to external, potentially malicious, websites through these embedded links.

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=a5+size+booklet+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.torydesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683484/4118292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.upstatecluttercoach.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407691/dedilazotanujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.subwaystash.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606492/budupujakodikoja.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/1/0438/9447/2856/files/80646670641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0016/8597/files/kravitz_cash_balance_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3735/1323/files/workplace_design_ergonomics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8669/1998/files/passione_pizza_antonino_esposito_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4552/files/51051056122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8250/4600/files/ludalosivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3658/0757/files/murenisixidawojejonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7453/3014/files/65736792289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13170590630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8951/7973/files/88120907448.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_off000048ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48EA 5236 bytes
SHA-256: a745f50e6c6df42916fe1a2ed24d3bb00e2310486cdc2a0dac10e415419ad753
font_01_sfnt_off00005aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AAF 14292 bytes
SHA-256: 79a9355ef909e12622dcc8531f7d058c737892798fa01fd4b6d00765a2d74042

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