Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29e4206e69fb4135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:07:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a406b96072ea6745b193e33f7e850c4e SHA-1: a03efbd34e7737ebd3c5b7ddbf42af80c101e88d SHA-256: 29e4206e69fb413560dfd7dacbe60e6ad2bcd1e9b2cbeffc037ec0dc5d31fbc1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=blackberry+work+android+signature'. Additionally, it features a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest a lure related to Blackberry work signatures, likely intended to trick users into visiting the malicious redirector.

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=blackberry+work+android+signature In PDF document text
    • http://files.polishfire.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406140/6299777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guwonor.calmundertension.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/2696065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plainfieldspanish.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874394/1361898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.algonacwrestling.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738531/505431.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/1/0432/5461/2123/files/23852526490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1245/4557/files/dekerawodaribizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2926/5574/files/xukudakowisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5858/4986/files/fight_night_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4121/6919/files/50932115971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7103/7855/files/pfsense_captive_portal_template_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7224/2342/files/dominio_archaea_definicion_caracteristicas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3387/8940/files/juzagekupakavewadefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9240/1573/files/72032254018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5481/5640/files/50306505449.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E2D 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd14f7175afbcc8c2a2d9fd094a80bbdc07625f9616fe780ad0d7a7345be91c
font_01_sfnt_off00008137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8137 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 69088946269bb45be6bdfe4eeb900086ccf151e3de7b4122e77a32a8ce6ce610