Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2033dba44c464299…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.5 KB Created: 2020-08-02 05:28:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6baa39f9257be23add3944f819dcf8fa SHA-1: 6e569b407b372b76a496b39c1036b7d50813c84a SHA-256: 2033dba44c464299164b742f64acf5bb5aafddeeb2ac25dff89c28f36f005fbd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to external resources, which is flagged as a PDF link farm. One critical heuristic identifies a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=minecraft+gamerule+list'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous shopify.com URLs, some flagged as benign, may be an attempt to blend in with legitimate content. The overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=minecraft+gamerule+list In PDF document text
    • http://files.strathamcirclenursery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453989/270705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.attitude4acting.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398292/1077106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cothrons.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775640/mugibufufomode_vozuzawenali_xagodufoxigesij_febotukidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mariesplacemusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381799/zixizake.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/1/0431/7030/0065/files/windows_8._1_product_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7854/9665/files/54234577399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7047/9766/files/bawixumemekafotolewosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9112/2584/files/xesesewuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9716/9824/files/zoxobufewunusamiludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5458/7288/files/vetugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5982/1209/files/34066200932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8719/0430/files/xosesifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6875/2023/files/34843140336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/14991068740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6318/0438/files/58245743654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3762/9348/files/14647553226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5757/8138/files/noluzuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87899810879.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_off0000aa40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA40 4980 bytes
SHA-256: 2bde603a2fc87126098b6cf956d0b87ef751f7bbc58b47e5355c752371d6ac24
font_01_sfnt_off0000bb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB13 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 32768c1ad508e930939704d97332e4a0507a9696317fabbb6df343100353c2ad
font_02_sfnt_off0000deb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71