Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 279f83d82c62cfcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54809922d387b3a59aaa8a6c7f16f1c4 SHA-1: 196860d40c614dfc7850fb9f59a10de1b4cc12e3 SHA-256: 279f83d82c62cfcc5065cd76e9b2d85d23ec484ab7ff52d59ecd9ad72b53f0bd
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, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm. One of the primary links points to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=geometric+rotations+worksheet+pdf', suggesting a lure related to 'geometric rotations worksheet'. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates an attempt to create a broad attack surface or SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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=geometric+rotations+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.avic2020.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695242/povemilolubip-balowakeral-mesewinigojisux-wefonafadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ztodorova.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681513/7645234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trinitykeezletown.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695582/ragexa-ronexunaben-jazun-tiduruxutowom.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/1/0431/2272/0922/files/dragon_age_arcane_warrior.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/11863903748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1648/6040/files/35215148871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1608/3877/files/53797124618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8432/4770/files/lumewadavesazofoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/86107675184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8827/2807/files/nalapazonivesizitufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4302/7104/files/78463922530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1030/1847/files/how_do_you_draw_a_heart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fejatomamegebuwugibuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0342/8515/files/boxavedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54344474436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3617/1679/files/13163021239.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000084cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84CD 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 1184e81c1d718da0dbfa5fa7a0fca719f818a99cda863e4b1c4c061e0093bc6a
font_01_sfnt_off000096da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96DA 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 4923d3c228d141129809ce82c4cce021a3016f7313627038e5cfd477a8f3d730
font_02_sfnt_off0000b9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3