Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 281522a83e77c232…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 01:08:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2c7269dff06b8285a1cee88cfa115ddc SHA-1: ae2894bd59c6e97b4171f131634c6719013e7cfa SHA-256: 281522a83e77c23298d771595000612cca0f73b6ac26749a510b24894f27cc98
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary malicious redirector URL identified as https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=apa+format+citing+article+title+in+text. This suggests the document is designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=apa+format+citing+article+title+in+text In PDF document text
    • http://wizugif.nysfcja.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969472/wurilukibubozega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowuxijas.calhounmiddleschoolband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/9a1be73.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/1/0434/0259/2410/files/69434946473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7187/1912/files/69404959565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4555/files/98555051547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4573/2007/files/nogaxesade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4333/5837/files/hematology_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4327/3369/files/food_and_beverage_industry_in_nigeria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4458/0002/files/25763455823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/7490/3205/files/free_half_marathon_training_guide_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5311/9648/files/fusionner_2_en_1_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6522/1028/files/68205995377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9505/5777/files/free_online_photo_collage_maker_no.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_off000071c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71C8 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 15b56e88487349f095db8cab15ca506c4252a118c6265315535a5f7494c39543
font_01_sfnt_off00008371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8371 10012 bytes
SHA-256: b392db88aca59c632a5d3576e20416259bc0c2b460b2dd899dffc187fde72b1d

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