Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28d20e4f0412c729…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-10-12 00:43:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d8593e92b153eba7bdf20064f17f4a2d SHA-1: 4a3638b4d8e21cde7c3a8d0595cf5b42d4afd0d8 SHA-256: 28d20e4f0412c729a0854d0dd8d0a3199882b28370f71b173f4fb624ab870cf8
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update to view content. It embeds numerous links, including a redirector to a PDF link farm, suggesting a drive-by download or phishing campaign. The primary redirector URL is https://cctraff.ru/pify?keyword=a+to+z+pawn+shop+phoenix+az, which then leads to a large number of PDF files hosted on various subdomains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/pify?keyword=a+to+z+pawn+shop+phoenix+az In PDF document text
    • http://jetidituf.iowasubtleimageryphotos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/kivinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuletina.jamesfitness.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776457/kukavogewunufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidezozi.mardecor.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455463/973ffb35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crossroadslapidary.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453870/3e59bdf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zusegu.texassaddlefitter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/finabezulenabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotukos.torontograffiti.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453134/1400327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.upsingingambassadors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739462/gunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liwusiwo.thefastshopp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483400/4b47736683bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iache.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/wutawudopaguzeteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siber.ngm2016.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070491/nowunowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040129.mozfiles.com/files/1040129/48761305648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040104.mozfiles.com/files/1040104/77345180934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043559.mozfiles.com/files/1043559/58183222873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043260.mozfiles.com/files/1043260/wefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.architectureindetail.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695428/4564fd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.angastonnc.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378972/5995873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getirivi.chynnamai.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380969/nogekokiwulowatuniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doguzu.aifis-digilib.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/marinuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amazinggracebridgetown.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383698/jurisunobimer_lekifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BD9 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 6b3ebc4908099697411bd757c06d127f1e95245e6288a678128954faefd11e5a
font_01_sfnt_off00009cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CDE 10312 bytes
SHA-256: ba0ed0a1c659e92d3c37a465bdebcf39bafefce9101df29136cd93a39feb3a36