Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ffbc3c174a0c9f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 01:39:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7849079de9e874aae20b1bcb3b22a20b SHA-1: c94b848c398ce72df769aae1d529a5a9a5acf5ce SHA-256: 1ffbc3c174a0c9f37ec7685c0c19f3eb78c585e3b4bcfc67083af3c4eecde0ff
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Canva pricing guide' and the malicious URL. This suggests a phishing attempt where the user is lured to click a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, likely to download further malware or phish for credentials.

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=canva+pricing+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.puppyloveplaydates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/wuvamurafemesiwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalawe.soniainc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453555/7175217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sonnerphysics.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814200/bewod.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/1/0434/5570/9341/files/wugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/gimisaxakaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7342/files/27469600392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5842/9078/files/hot_springs_jetsetter_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8866/7034/files/college_physics_volume_2_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6734/1981/files/jawoxenosoxugigaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9079/5941/files/18254357164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3997/2773/files/4406756278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9361/files/11726896786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6604/8165/files/45427207516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9798/1089/files/xafubimeziran.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_off00006762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6762 4808 bytes
SHA-256: c74557572d5d6980bd9879236ff1f9aa6a61404cfe1e9439982d15093cab9cbf
font_01_sfnt_off000077c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77C2 11152 bytes
SHA-256: a96b6d910ed42661173f8283a0c1068ae8fda979636933cffb8ec15476f25b2e
font_02_sfnt_off00009d42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D42 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f