Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ed253fa13beed5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 09:01:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb7d34b41f301035ce52cdda56837186 SHA-1: 0971f25b78010c9f40e57adde352d64cc63dd504 SHA-256: 1ed253fa13beed5f497bc6fb7094db8be571202bd74b294f41a50810bbfb08d5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chamfering+process+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a benign-looking PDF title, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, and the family is undetermined.

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=chamfering+process+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.maltaglasscreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637316/8677662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iraqi-poet.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739810/milaku-wirerewizup-wuzik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dojalefa.darrellmatsumoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775320/wasoxurepujilojarod.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/1/0431/6174/7605/files/zefesogunuwaxobuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6987/files/61204049287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5612/files/human_development_in_psychology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3293/5574/files/ffa_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6072/files/81505418896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2563/6248/files/kunotosakelurefewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8617/5651/files/gupuvajenapama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1960/7962/files/zalejixidalozuwavifukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0722/0635/files/haggadah_text_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1802/6142/files/pewuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5667/7543/files/kwsp_table.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_off00006038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6038 5268 bytes
SHA-256: b1a2dc9ef54ccf741f609c9094d28a2969d7c7e14453bb7e7cc6bced6e5d5ddd
font_01_sfnt_off000071f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71F4 10564 bytes
SHA-256: c6847a71c7208ff0f407f18d38ae56746de2e96a2d281c91a4d2dbbf4abb92bd
font_02_sfnt_off00009609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9609 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3