Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a019867b066bbc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5bcbb748182b6b07b2e879ebb4799af5 SHA-1: 303c0ffe6597a7fa9fc64f9aac280715ee8d8654 SHA-256: 1a019867b066bbc83b6df1d5d53031ae0e09989011ac4f8efa77a5e06817e1e1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=basic+probability+theory+pdf'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt disguised as a legitimate document. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. 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=basic+probability+theory+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://najor.johncesarguitar.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070161/pilupifibozanobazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artworkbyrenee.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740620/kixojiroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bendigounited.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739369/sixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.onemoremiletraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969655/tetubejo-teguwa-xijosux-sizudixiwu.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/1/0430/4617/4877/files/99366652033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1563/files/lulepifawamapifekukobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0280/4898/files/mevasogaxurado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/balevogigadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6043/5873/files/67892227874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/sivuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5371/9452/files/sozonibajexafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0982/7231/files/rumogoxesevifajubatidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3250/1656/files/44169930453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0131/4454/files/19626340388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6645/8266/files/dotevafepumiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/pagowa.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008d55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D55 5532 bytes
SHA-256: f894ee4cf5a1f1ad3534169cd6bc5decd92c5bb244ff08a84a93a3a468107d57
font_01_sfnt_off0000a01a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA01A 10692 bytes
SHA-256: fa2fbcc61909b074d6df79fb4c0e718177f6bd69ad0726e3129956a18ec34780
font_02_sfnt_off0000c4f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4F6 16236 bytes
SHA-256: 3595ff85ffd319b6cfbd18f185c76d32efd97eef2cd63e4cee388b37a230341f