Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cfc22d43a58379d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 98b0d1c9608f5154032357f33252ef28 SHA-1: e8ca489c32276c11bef9bf03216c6915d8f9f1be SHA-256: 1cfc22d43a58379df73f22a540699f394d6b8675b2df3040f8520d68f925c9cd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious due to a critical heuristic indicating it contains links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=%25CE%25B2%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B2%25CE%25BB%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF+%25CE%25B3%25CE%25BB%25CF%258E%25CF%2583%25CF%2583%25CE%25B1%25CF%2582+%25CE%25B2+%25CE%25B4%25CE%25B7%25CE%25BC%25CE%25BF%25CF%2584%25CE%25B9%25CE%25BA%25CE%25BF%25CF%258D+%25CE%25B3+%25CF%2584%25CE%25B5%25CF%258D%25CF%2587%25CE%25BF%25CF%2582+pdf, suggesting a redirection chain designed to lead users to harmful content.

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.ru/pify?keyword=%25CE%25B2%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B2%25CE%25BB%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF+%25CE%25B3%25CE%25BB%25CF%258E%25CF%2583%25CF%2583%25CE%25B1%25CF%2582+%25CE%25B2+%25CE%25B4%25CE%25B7%25CE%25BC%25CE%25BF%25CF%2584%25CE%25B9%25CE%25BA%25CE%25BF%25CF%258D+%25CE%25B3+%25CF%2584%25CE%25B5%25CF%258D%25CF%2587%25CE%25BF%25CF%2582+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wemop.norwoodcavies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739674/ffb7e244870a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arvadatherapysolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695438/kavoliwajeso_magivimuxig_kerifowaliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dazmedia.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710563/1804682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=%25CE%25B2%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B2%25CE%25BB%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF+%25CE%25B3%25CE%25BB%25CF%258E%25CF%2583%25CF%2583%25CE%25B1%25CF%2582+%25CE%25B2+%25CE%25B4%25CE%25B7%25CE%25BC%25CE%25BF%25CF%2584%25CE%25B9%25CE%25BA%25CE%25BF%25CF%258D+%25CE%25B3+%25CF%2584%25CE%25B5%25CIn 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/1/0434/3067/4597/files/zupusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1970/6269/files/93345670841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7812/3680/files/mepuzusizirikuvuguwigawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1577/4108/files/act_not_parsing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6828/3287/files/60277830691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3444/2919/files/86215778787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/lead_acid_battery_charging_methods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5829/1093/files/88257599780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6858/7174/files/call_location_tracker_software_free_apk.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004e5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E5E 6756 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff339500486251830d2c762120ce85503c7392cfcf168fd0731489f085c5bca
font_01_sfnt_off00006554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6554 15364 bytes
SHA-256: 8c8b1fd6ba185028fcbfbcb1be8c1c35cdc040fbfca8fd4691f6b137648de5c0