Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2795c0b20a740ace…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 20:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fb63b5159b96fb746e528120ae33c99c SHA-1: 62452df214bd12839addd99fa37f8de5e2bc7438 SHA-256: 2795c0b20a740ace3a9fb262a63ac7f50c633fed0ef3b4457d941131ba1bb2b1
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=eagle+scout+ambition+statement'. This URL is likely used to lure the user into downloading a second-stage payload. The document body also contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on Shopify and other domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=eagle+scout+ambition+statement In PDF document text
    • http://redili.georgewhittellalumniassociation.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741099/b4c9a0983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.suitedreams.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969305/zodewamaxi-kawokebu-wakiji-julawetexiwede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jnachmanphoto.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682990/5781185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ushooker.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438308/zakejuxiferakowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pensionplanningsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381804/216867.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/1/0436/0683/5358/files/1951576464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9897/2066/files/49274335757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2661/1357/files/aliments_riches_en_protines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rirolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3771/2803/files/30083315081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8970/5625/files/vigozobemumubevojuvipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6202/4605/files/bldc_motor_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4545/3985/files/baldur_s_gate_enhanced_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1457/6538/files/zobuwunukuzakuxumevamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71409998288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6464/0159/files/principles_of_agribusiness_management_4th_edition.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_off0000618a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x618A 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 8165ae9fff4197638e1c13452aad661ea41c28dfc7644c14c5f8456d8a44e657
font_01_sfnt_off000072ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72ED 10040 bytes
SHA-256: 52349b21a0781bfc84b49a71731c3ae5c2dd53029e7dbcb52c47f3d9b8c3d8bf

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