Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0753332628b6805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dc8d17df691ff7d0750e74f0e5807a4e SHA-1: 85555ceb5820656e60744db1feb4253101d8ab40 SHA-256: e0753332628b680536e9cf44e3b1960b729f7c84e0752daf3a831e6221a98896
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=apowersoft+screenshot+android'. Additionally, it features a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure disguised as a download for 'apowersoft screenshot android'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=apowersoft+screenshot+android In PDF document text
    • http://files.doityourselfdocumentaries.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740423/1718c40bfb9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.friendschurchdoorcounty.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163774/fef5052a1abd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glidinghbw.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856040/9446361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tycymorth.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968992/kiwapemugugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6547/3189/files/nekifujimuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/7095/8241/files/chevening_scholarship_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6277/8263/files/vopulitizitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1713/4499/files/jujidetutafodogasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8697/1033/files/jee_maths_formulas_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7052/9436/files/triethylamine_msds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2296/7207/files/care_credit_application_spanish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63912397784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8468/5224/files/12605869087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2353/1175/files/marginal_costing_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7719/8229/files/aspen_snow_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6426/2818/files/no_fale_com_estranhos_livro.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000062b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62B4 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 6728b0a5e0e7e047ea245b8f1f07eef07a18cd6e19a45cce9eb6afd21619c811
font_01_sfnt_off000073f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73F8 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 7c671868d1a95d246fac31a29a6e128cec7b3ae31ff354d4ac3ab9775014ffcc
font_02_sfnt_off0000961d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x961D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c