Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ccc47fcd138b239…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 16:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57012b811f24d96bf68ceca70214316f SHA-1: 89c1cae6f0b0a44e472e16ad63c216d545022102 SHA-256: 1ccc47fcd138b239421d0d9afe35cbed1f9ef52304048aa61440a45c437b6af1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=keto+diet+meal+plan+free', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'keto diet meal plan free', suggesting a lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farms used to distribute malicious content. 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=keto+diet+meal+plan+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.windowcleanersvictoria.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695360/xegemujoru-dunifapafido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buyrefugeecandles.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381612/2351981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mhssportsclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/39b6699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hppsfuturelearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636954/gibibo_romeja_binafezezija_tabeb.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/1/0433/2866/7816/files/vanellope_von_schweetz_hentai.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0549/2904/files/wufilitixutowirovozope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2143/2992/files/sewugafudatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0091/2282/files/audacity_2._1._3_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6343/3621/files/57462936200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3651/5224/files/cost_accounting_short_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4215/8245/files/dovuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6757/8270/files/accrual_basis_of_accounting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4954/7936/files/48335664953.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000073ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73AC 4764 bytes
SHA-256: ecb8e68bc4db9b2bfda28947ce532d382118c1544b2769f394f6d2c28c91f1dd
font_01_sfnt_off000083c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83C1 10316 bytes
SHA-256: e93bce0a634f2b9f218d179b33fe26e1742918f0decdd8e6466280cc3cfbb04d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA700 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34