Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f47b13d9b6c64352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:52:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ba9ba3ae37a9265f072721bb5f82b1da SHA-1: 1e9341e3c3d368458bb22348aab1f37e0916128c SHA-256: f47b13d9b6c643524cb1bead776f9413b2bef2f55aac8f2dc74a0ae22e92247f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=kuensel+calendar+2020+pdf+download, is used to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this malicious URL and a benign-looking PDF, suggesting a lure to download a file that ultimately leads to malicious infrastructure. The presence of many Shopify links suggests an attempt to blend in with legitimate 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.com/pify?keyword=kuensel+calendar+2020+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.maschmeyer.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378838/putedogovo-piretelaso-bonuwezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bikeforlifesd.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682802/peguko-safewarosamesu-kafivilozobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dukeunccls.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/6017493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piside.monaghantidytowns.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738531/rawokurev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thdl.org/http://www.thdl.org/TibetanIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9799/4904/files/70008834781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0776/1819/files/2323625901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7318/4678/files/36473860227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5413/6473/files/how_to_anonymize_adobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5611/0487/files/86286446900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92702877098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/4350/0710/files/31065591976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8032/files/81231932075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5934/7618/files/vikobujuxexedetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7111/1330/files/free_form_filler_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4619/9711/files/46951687578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6552/3862/files/37304835182.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlTibetanIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BF4 5484 bytes
SHA-256: bc78286fbb1432c4ee71cb1132b0d7fad659802321d1fffbabcca85935da3b73
font_01_sfnt_off00006ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ECB 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 05f002fbe2dafaf9ff3a91415ac4de6fc5120697e93b7d77852534f9b64c6f9d
font_02_sfnt_off000086e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86E2 2448 bytes
SHA-256: c14a7261fc73024d8eb5a71744047bba87e284d88f493d6fd64b95d3292805af
font_03_sfnt_off0000918d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x918D 9880 bytes
SHA-256: 65ce7be32060f512d926dfe51596a587878b372b456ba5961b7472b095354218