Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26e777f60a63c312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-07-25 14:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 616546880deb0e226affd8b64dcc04dd SHA-1: 6f20daf4cba1ec937f642e9dcda8ccf890db74c1 SHA-256: 26e777f60a63c312bec2e477e3cc951da2b3b6a5c5262ac1dce6a58a4fc86abd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an academic probation form. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that the embedded URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=laurier+academic+probation+form, leads to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, with the first being https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pitoparejiki.pdf, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection.

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=laurier+academic+probation+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.elizabethstahlpsychotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776504/tugevivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vnannj.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163747/muroluwog-zoduxaxoxovawa-rajufulivavuwis-virorobeziteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.salmonslinger.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163643/virolesodo-mitaxofujufimar-zipiputed.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/pitoparejiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1675/7153/files/gusalalemufaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5369/5647/files/vuxatowalunajavajipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5831/4912/files/bamujasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5539/0630/files/56749580967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7997/5591/files/gamidonalapadavemugegev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3531/files/29333249595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/59499798082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zadolodiwifunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1829/7245/files/tinonotivajaxikutowatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3246/8890/files/3979618390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3762/9348/files/39796739642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8873/9494/files/87359629745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/87347518624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0445/2246/files/sezametejidadekidodad.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_off00007ae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE1 5052 bytes
SHA-256: f81b10bbffee484e468d1f16526fb3b9299ff3e8c4c245c7c94d5bdcf163407f
font_01_sfnt_off00008bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BEC 10876 bytes
SHA-256: e3bf83c3814c60f77d7bd25c8d3574d27204198f0d139bb9c92c8ebfa50f6c6d