Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3528e53e55cf6de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 12:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 76479d8f87961bc24c59dfe27016117b SHA-1: 1f9496a04c45ca4a8142dd6459f9a94bb20aa7de SHA-256: e3528e53e55cf6de2c01563f565ad5c001656535e032e5aaa9722e566117a18f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=blaze+of+glory+lyrics'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a reference to 'Blaze of glory lyrics', suggesting a lure to entice clicks. The file's purpose appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure.

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.com/pify?keyword=blaze+of+glory+lyrics In PDF document text
    • http://files.dghealthandfitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874575/3885037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.accessprotons.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695325/400fe9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jacobxsullivan.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873783/1c55c.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/10809735118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/67331216746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6379/5094/files/sakonogutegigomomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7296/files/58902922957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4131/7276/files/sitisavekewamujajikojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8851/1130/files/gukekolejeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3139/6501/files/dowukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6146/8574/files/wuzekuluzuximavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/nevapamiwefadeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7573/1607/files/vapegoduliropifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5681/6540/files/rosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5892/0605/files/nurom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/nonam.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65DD 4852 bytes
SHA-256: a55796555ba2002a286cea414939b23b576f5e76e074aefc17fc02bcb951d3cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000767e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x767E 10212 bytes
SHA-256: ddca28c15aee1460f0053b03dbb077a5e2a72a3e94716c52a78ef2b140339bdc
font_02_sfnt_off0000997b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x997B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c

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