Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d97db6c158ff0282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 16:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fdbca8ba6691f894e1a16b673dc2a21d SHA-1: caaab012b9a0b6dad6d9ddb1084b31529666cc9e SHA-256: d97db6c158ff02825be711aa928e0d3ebbb7541ed03f0db87cfc76594fca7c7e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ldr+photoresistor+datasheet'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm hosted on Shopify, with many links pointing to PDFs. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same lure text and the malicious URL, indicating the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious content.

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=ldr+photoresistor+datasheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.wsbra2020.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739368/bumurot_mosajulajonit_fojovajulunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laseraccents.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814717/kovolesiwavidotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.everyday-buddhism.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873715/4f705c3ba6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.salisburychurches.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/xetisex_kasabivezed_rewasewa.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/1/0434/8638/0189/files/13961941310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7328/1948/files/72392042396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7194/7423/files/avon_catalogue_august_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9870/9918/files/42698238172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1299/files/25700241270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9753/9231/files/glades_season_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2344/5666/files/a._b._simpson_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4967/2091/files/23281474910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2385/9873/files/97971301923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7157/6993/files/25801400843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1576/6177/files/81892290162.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_off00006c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C09 4956 bytes
SHA-256: f4bd3598c133b32e65f8eb8fa933a07e0daf54d66425dee34b114ecf938b40f5
font_01_sfnt_off00007cdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CDC 9628 bytes
SHA-256: 6cca3210cbb7fc8c6033e5a48857613ab07f75977dac67d6957ff770ac9a1533

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