Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa52aff8ccf80479…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.6 KB Created: 2020-08-27 17:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8e88f24b7241ec6b42205690b7efe109 SHA-1: 9935c84b058802ce4df9a8802d820f0ce5bca682 SHA-256: fa52aff8ccf8047920687f4c97b6f8b39c023529169f1a03f64a6c8d3af6fc52
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=romeo+santos+midi+download+free', which is presented in the document body. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking the link, likely to download malware or engage in phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=romeo+santos+midi+download+free In PDF document text
    • http://tapifoj.patriciamauceri.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969406/vapimowasavowovebonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talejon.australiasmedium.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/nurixuxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sagecottagefryerstown.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438658/4472981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gefata.alisonsowls.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/1e66b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.singershowroom.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738559/degonetesafu.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/1/0430/3503/3757/files/kozaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8003/2160/files/64339411438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1425/files/korefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7034/files/google_sheets_sort_priority.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8423/4398/files/book_of_elijah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7491/files/69009745047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2509/5062/files/80296032009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7872/9374/files/tactics_for_listening_developing_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7660/7390/files/19979290731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9731/7783/files/bagoxovolavasibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4354/3447/files/45521754910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9694/7353/files/piladax.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000466f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x466F 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 283ab0f42e1e725cdc6d0544f0c4bb28ae86c7ba838ee772c12435525dad2526
font_01_sfnt_off000057ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57EF 9832 bytes
SHA-256: 3281a353ce2cdf4a85c925e670f4f2e85940305b88023b18e9ba1c905791f8b9

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