Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4858edf12ffdf4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 19:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fed876a572da865060828f80bca160e6 SHA-1: c5a34d5fbfe61af714cb16ec170d944ade063e9b SHA-256: f4858edf12ffdf4bc133212ab32a47512f8905672b7c9bf741c2dca265de4c38
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a significant number on cdn.shopify.com. One of the primary links, presented in the document body, redirects to a malicious URL (https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=admin+assistant+cover+letter+pdf), suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The document's content and structure indicate a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link, likely leading to further compromise.

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=admin+assistant+cover+letter+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lifetimeepoxyfloors.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695257/pewojivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clockworkpositive.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683080/76fe7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ruirosalab.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740814/6982546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.synergy-electrical.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382092/1191589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thedottedpig.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712251/f5a73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/gasewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4229/2390/files/wozumazejirisibilaxunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5274/5375/files/29472834771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0785/1171/files/40295185596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8577/files/20485327301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5630/8123/files/tinkers_material_traits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4603/4846/files/texas_direct_auto_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/646255477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2920/6952/files/pexeguzesukanezobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6294/2106/files/83483678125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8266/2553/files/science_reading_comprehension_passages_middle_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/ukulele_chord_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7634/6266/files/siduxefevij.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ADE 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 501d2a4e252ff42e23b182bfafa289fc5dfdba0217cc12791fbf9c667e92c4df
font_01_sfnt_off00007cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CFF 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 900b075292970ec36856c7f9cc3b4ddec0847b460af3fc05b9d4146e792295db