Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e74748b88c72b177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 578288fa4b2dfcaaf6b952d5b96f4f0a SHA-1: dc42d99f1928284bc2319143c2f97e3f4a0de29a SHA-256: e74748b88c72b177702e251a8b9c2ffb5796866f65d22df0bf78e1e399e8f132
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify domains but one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to physical therapy exercises and the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=knee+pain+physical+therapy+exercises+pdf, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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=knee+pain+physical+therapy+exercises+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.samaacollection.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739778/kuradap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asteroidea.ch/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776536/wanifexikomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.negotiateconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070113/tenoxonoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.matthewjohnsonpainting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637419/3a62051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.severnwildlifecarvers.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776589/nopoxixavuma_raxikadozipap_simogaxigu_kimediganos.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/xigidewepiwunabifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9345/1159/files/nejowege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9047/files/weragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8714/8709/files/22382667445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6948/8798/files/ffxiv_act_overlay_not_showing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66456909559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7483/files/41893481158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1276/3298/files/custom_sonic_sprites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/24807538011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7078/3645/files/rogarilalifanonopixopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6485/2634/files/pixosetuwonunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9276/0994/files/70181225581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6668/3545/files/algorithm_analysis_and_design_tutorial.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_off00006d1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D1D 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 9a27cb4026be7a0236254f8f26d94990739b396db454b5bb71166e943f063957
font_01_sfnt_off00007e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E43 9884 bytes
SHA-256: 04fb9caa5060fd53c338db507c11c71bc2f2f7abedd53d12eaa61236888c4886
font_02_sfnt_off0000a018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA018 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34