Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 209255ad1e0db77b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 00:03:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8fce75aa875ad0c5eef03da696b0fc3b SHA-1: a3d17451f54ea021ecafc2972b253a66d430f755 SHA-256: 209255ad1e0db77b807f75dae522aeb14f3405c172add296993173c5281cbaa9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at "https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cycloaddition+reaction+pdf". This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to "cycloaddition reaction pdf", likely serving as a lure. The presence of many external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=cycloaddition+reaction+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.auntbettyskitchen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379246/fupebuxodaf-vopajifilowas-varedivixose-rexozuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dianamdurand.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740435/sumeligidikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thearbroathspitfire.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775484/d16106f7f6e.pdfIn 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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65028435792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4375/0049/files/lojitopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7738/6918/files/tuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3482/files/34984600736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7430/4662/files/zigobopogezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9688/3868/files/povatipufenogesozapevabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6157/files/zaxuruguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6427/7657/files/zorejaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5197/3794/files/30998434267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1543/0559/files/xewedelixaxafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3337/9487/files/88887267137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2037/6474/files/68909587738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9456/4252/files/53424032731.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6833 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 70e952e75e5b3006968eabf37123264f71d596c4be51536dfc44e73ffc9fad6e
font_01_sfnt_off00007937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7937 9996 bytes
SHA-256: ee696c7e2beccba23bd52e1aa35276790d7720bb3a3dad84b013221e5c775ce1

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