Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a885d8c69373b6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cb60879d7c6a8667eea01ff4c3955820 SHA-1: 74d4723ca24321ce89d394097d953aa84d965554 SHA-256: 1a885d8c69373b6e349f1bf8eb970e3879c5b189040ae3b923596b1eb1a24402
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a large number of external PDF links, forming a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=semitic+languages+pdf', which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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=semitic+languages+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.creatingforachange.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775361/211f0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.snowyriverfarms.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874125/jojugowominisedetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annagalatirealtor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452887/rulosoxuzonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8476/6620/files/34654634794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/8735497741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5680/8607/files/vemomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2344/0799/files/22728261578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2903/files/foruzunufuwokalabesegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9995/8939/files/92686109375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3421/3538/files/video_catcher_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4243/0362/files/51542973961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8774/1599/files/62580224551.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off0001c845.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1C845 27436 bytes
SHA-256: 5dbaf13018603bdd2babf2f455ea6bc5d5aeb3ebfbdec86fc5159a7d031e410c
font_00_sfnt_off000146d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D7 13688 bytes
SHA-256: 84c3963fb06f5e63092262caead053215b110e94e44ac85df0bb765b8ae631c1
font_01_sfnt_off00016c28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C28 5252 bytes
SHA-256: a4f0901f8993a87486a91f10c460a94680410a18f7a3e79dc31996fe7d10db4e
font_02_sfnt_off00017deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DEB 26780 bytes
SHA-256: 99e6124e557d744646ba42e3b49f7f62c5509c23674ba11655a813f8ae669a77
font_04_sfnt_off0001f96a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F96A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
font_05_sfnt_off0002072f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2072F 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab9e7f2f7c4416cfcf71563af14aa697fa8043b3fec1afaa28ca9e97c5a8e64