Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 272ac819a333651e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 14:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 949ec74d6ff7b49c141e9dafa18c3ee2 SHA-1: 1c91b7afc5b5e4f4bde4def5a62bae5f0bcd8552 SHA-256: 272ac819a333651e64ed6504e66782640437a063137bfd851dc8060de25e5162
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=general+zoology+lecture+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the redirector and link farm strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack.

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.cc/pify?keyword=general+zoology+lecture+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.evaslebanesecooking.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/serotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jackierobidouxphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453560/denukezulejisukaxuwa.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/1/0430/1576/6177/files/dogenuzanevejurinaliled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5555/3443/files/bypass_frp_apk_android_7._0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8792/8223/files/88294400450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2654/4797/files/basic_learning_computer_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2285/9943/files/sign_in_gmail_account_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6546/5249/files/bifurcated_appraisal_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1828/7266/files/970930926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7511/6959/files/dexivaniwapuginewoxixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9218/1153/files/30911956680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8942/8637/files/leatherworking_classic_wow_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6610/5759/files/kadambari_assamese_movie_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8460/1752/files/34935307741.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008d33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D33 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 4aba2bb845853324476be69e5ed1bf4ff35002942389efac2b843cac1129f0e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000972e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x972E 5164 bytes
SHA-256: a9b669f3ccc5031a372b2d640b2a5e80580ca443a8fe4a3c9617f2f093cb29f6
font_02_sfnt_off0000a8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8E1 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 0c36ecb610b4bb78c9a121d13f4077c649b570cae345f8f8789a95e13459c254
font_03_sfnt_off0000cc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2