Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff7d578073d9e3b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 03:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7dd9560e294c62764b17b9ba4cc6c791 SHA-1: 0f54fc0de78652b09b091fb9e3ebf9825ff17562 SHA-256: ff7d578073d9e3b2cb1feceedc9a4e860477248064b702775222daf69cc65b9a
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.com/pify?keyword=qu%25C3%25A9+significa+languidez+en+espa%25C3%25B1ol'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=qu%25C3%25A9+significa+languidez+en+espa%25C3%25B1ol In PDF document text
    • http://files.newcomers-winstonsalem.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406234/613fdf913b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creeksideband.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384789/3301404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.familybusinessatwork.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/3558453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6243/5739/files/50369553736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/2653473678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5945/3860/files/57701213123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1400/2587/files/non_aqueous_titration_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2729/9478/files/sivavuluwonudama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3902/2485/files/87312550099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2151/6449/files/gawadezigezafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botudurodakokebavexosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3248/5793/files/tagalog_christmas_songs_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/35022180152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7657/4620/files/anopheles_albimanus.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.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ffd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFD 4276 bytes
SHA-256: 47d15d6d60e54f179624d56b5bfbfeea14e1af6ad6dee3362fb0ed443915074e
font_01_sfnt_off00006f4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F4F 5492 bytes
SHA-256: aecc90988d7a92ffa057eb51c57931cf9581710cca7dc2a66d58651e4aa56e1e
font_02_sfnt_off00008188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8188 3700 bytes
SHA-256: 2de202cedb288f7298927450a53fb7ca3f6866dce567f81f2c325fc363341fff
font_03_sfnt_off00008fa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FA9 4588 bytes
SHA-256: dfb5a3280eb96c98fdffef4eb7a76b3d1b8ecf6419ec3ff525bfd94569110f13
font_04_sfnt_off00009e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E89 12156 bytes
SHA-256: f963e203c7026f0c87c23464780a1e6ec2da76fa0d9b46a7f221b39958972384
font_05_sfnt_off0000c600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC600 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
font_06_sfnt_off0000d401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD401 3272 bytes
SHA-256: 9fb0fa38f2d0294b28acb8295e7d481360129dcee4c66c3a06620160915783d8