Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc734d1e635785a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:42:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 70321fdd4d30a2327a2b8267b6c4776c SHA-1: 63933ef905dc74e98bd0166d49744ddbc1aa114c SHA-256: dc734d1e635785a006c817eb2cf3a8c35852eaeda527d811b4dcae7179c31ec7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector: https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cauchy+schwarz+inequality+proof+pdf. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF links, reinforcing the malicious redirection pattern.

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=cauchy+schwarz+inequality+proof+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.aapae.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406275/9754189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ww1trenchwatch.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872087/d9267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parkyoga-utrecht.nl/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774993/keximu_wupukulevuxon_kizalikojesirax_xuzivoloxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kingdomofchristrealities.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455621/rurefesuvawizi_widarudu_radofutawodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cardinal-woodcraft.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453894/seduwirija.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/1/0435/1574/0312/files/12135689211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9979/8166/files/nogixagenudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8152/files/75046147422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/56617372284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5456/files/dipuneratenawuzebenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5175/2344/files/21022117689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3510/7233/files/diwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27039997465.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000adff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADFF 3028 bytes
SHA-256: a8bb295adce06666852798224f8c17cf63d4c16f7697ae4b42c723da0a07d689
font_01_sfnt_off0000b8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8DB 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 4e17a4356e670118486d0bebacff3417ba6c7daa16e6b7f33d99066262d17eef
font_02_sfnt_off0000cbb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB0 2172 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9044e88a600f55c2b8799f62b522751254ce0b91e35f70fc2ebfe1dc71f479
font_03_sfnt_off0000d511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD511 16652 bytes
SHA-256: d8dca42094ff4eb243d1640fe719d4b116e2552964ae4553fe1c27c9bedb87ad
font_04_sfnt_off000109ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AC 16500 bytes
SHA-256: b75e40fa53a5b042f6c10f942a090146fb758cfb122fcda5ddb50b26f8869040