Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddf1c4e6f7c3d7c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 13:00:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 577b09c69e6f882cc0abd40ba6de2f74 SHA-1: a3f7fecaf2d13ef032c39b7d38d77afdfc7ffb4f SHA-256: ddf1c4e6f7c3d7c030f2481622fb7e2c6749619e951288915e416802af78a5b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One such link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=alto+sax+sheet+music+pdf+free', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Alto sax sheet music pdf free', suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of multiple external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for 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=alto+sax+sheet+music+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://fakijugi.ritahogan.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/9901162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ripav.brcofoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406390/099447583c97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jakeryancreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380916/4314840.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/1/0434/5954/3192/files/9119723122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1586/2434/files/hypixel_pe_ip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/60866723092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3032/1051/files/fozalebawexusojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1336/files/nadosafulezerokukiluzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5462/7993/files/bengali_recipes_in_bengali_language_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4390/4927/files/namijatoginolebeber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0926/1220/files/ielts_writing_academic_answer_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7920/3992/files/12464797794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7783/6702/files/3083379374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7093/0600/files/dezigopiferemupoga.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_off000054d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54D5 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 99f876400710fb151c5c3068f359caee1ab7d6660034cad389fda8b8a820c1cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000673d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x673D 14496 bytes
SHA-256: 5c08bad89f077d72a3b049a6f74b19e5573ba10670eddd5a37b584ec2dda9d3e

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