Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 263ef2a6dbce4531…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 08:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dbf2fa7cb6172a39a4efba0fbedc4a91 SHA-1: 18d96bbbd86a7d3a4194cf5c724e9d23b1995e18 SHA-256: 263ef2a6dbce45318f834f604e6e9fadd01ff3fe974bc46a8fd6869f3669978d
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=g+n+m+form+date+2019, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=g+n+m+form+date+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://files.beechwoodnaturopathy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775380/mudokawezafomopatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michaeljeffress.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437775/ludugojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.venga-japan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740625/4244691.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/1/0429/6101/0842/files/rufumenevekinakaniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/17418425376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4803/2673/files/dragons_dogma_names.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1822/1730/files/vademecum_antibioticos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0774/5958/files/kim_jong_un_minecraft_skin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9173/9295/files/5487115651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5228/3542/files/85369382102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3645/files/23727315792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6837/2632/files/dojuxulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7405/1491/files/coda_shop_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2745/5382/files/lubugokojozed.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_off00007daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DAF 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 6ad7bc9dce3872e917e735c0d223a0899c5e3e490eab0c62fb860d39591bc78a
font_01_sfnt_off00008fcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FCF 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 169ceed8083bbdcf26bc2f40fa5309256cd989d9d316241a3bc47b1656e9af91