Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2877dfa1fe2cfd39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 782e30a4d5792f3f964518f1f32e9da0 SHA-1: 72bb2269bde0babe0c11914cf841628972fe6159 SHA-256: 2877dfa1fe2cfd393b0e0180749d3ebb25312c840460ce597f9325fbb1eb7455
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, many of which point to shopify.com domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=basic+english+synonyms+pdf, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=basic+english+synonyms+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thinkaboutouroceans.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740573/6b4abbb0fbb49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theblackcownewspaper.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407029/969d28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.atlaslincoln.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776001/2385120.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/1/0428/8164/6758/files/windows_10_the_missing_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7097/1299/files/94171679586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6043/5871/files/bimovawivovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6145/8597/files/9508753658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39858795743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/83583068491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/xonibekaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9719/0556/files/doterra_probiotic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6559/0438/files/rimajajosogavesaxakokazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65529241957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6532/7262/files/lotilozuxobukuvumasevusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/legadenukokaripugagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8733/1481/files/vocabulary_words_for_ielts_writing_task_2.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_off00007052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7052 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 45badebaf68e460ad4b4c5d5686f6b6cfe04f3ee604766a18ea7dcd3a058c0e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000835b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x835B 9824 bytes
SHA-256: 645905c709a71f8be992ab581c78539a23956ec6e34eabdc9793a92967287c06

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