Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 242ee1e19334c91e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:24:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cb25b916112bdf180a3b96448fce979 SHA-1: 6220c44c263db6edab3cef0c4a563370e18ba1f7 SHA-256: 242ee1e19334c91ebb71af116912274f0cea1661cd1f96eff4972082e5530436
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=caracteristicas+sociales+del+adulto+joven+pdf', which is designed to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious URL and a large list of Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

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=caracteristicas+sociales+del+adulto+joven+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.equineunl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739590/6299929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kayceewarethomas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409170/8518296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joshuacolecampbellstore.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682281/petatek-penora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.p2gbrooklynnorth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408245/ranedamidusiwe.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/1/0432/8944/4510/files/32219670124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/deridero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3550/7358/files/25771463554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2105/7700/files/70221083984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1070/9913/files/favubunafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/somasasonagozogekamodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0184/7708/files/pujefanazegener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9575/2864/files/girulogukojelojejukinozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7623/6950/files/58896472326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4016/7320/files/ribapegividupofewezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80787326618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3851/4071/files/84461081950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9861/9550/files/warogeturorofikewu.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_off0000a103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA103 5188 bytes
SHA-256: a565c714a267baf152ad5fa6aab89c3d759551d7cba35bdf9acabfd8959a774f
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2BF 11768 bytes
SHA-256: 0f63cfce246deb4c14eddd0b5a8e92adcf0064631587b8803503de9721efd2eb