Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f15533064156d486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:00:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 51862ef235cb17c7d8f0ff257efd47e7 SHA-1: 509d45ba8c9021e5004c05ce429a4f69335d32be SHA-256: f15533064156d486acd6315c5d6474ef285a05b5839c107242a186ec85561c1b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=anne+bradstreet+the+prologue+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5841/1158/files/dr_dre_xxplosive.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of execution behavior.

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=anne+bradstreet+the+prologue+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pattyusheribclc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969300/311979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miramissions.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380258/9342009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.osykastudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637652/4718933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dirksalomon.de/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406437/degesoti.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/1/0440/5841/1158/files/dr_dre_xxplosive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4637/files/wunesedekibevaxariji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/cara_membuat_cv_dengan_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/mamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/wupitefanesesoretijebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5323/6902/files/71654061188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4042/3592/files/pulse_width_modulation_principle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0560/6049/files/17563161146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1586/3447/files/88711348070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9156/6493/files/affiliate_marketing_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2525/0974/files/89805613017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2953/6676/files/90136661854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0228/1633/files/84492544148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3333/7768/files/sepubamem.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_off0000b245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB245 5268 bytes
SHA-256: a973fa56d1005762d08ed3ba53a7df8d2b77a47c1e338bcdcc203b0c5e3e372d
font_01_sfnt_off0000c416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC416 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 518895af86f9635ee30cb7e940ae5a8a649fa5c8076e868c8d5f6325215aae2a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34