Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c18203c0193475e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-07-27 18:56:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab279222f783ba33eb25025fce72c707 SHA-1: bb157857c6bb909718ee73eb2a0b9dc4221546b9 SHA-256: 2c18203c0193475e04c6f1c9187778c16577b5c6af25bb54fb118e20b57e7334
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm', with a significant portion pointing to cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body contains garbled text but includes the string 'Chaka demus and pliers music', which appears to be used as a keyword in the malicious redirector URL. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links and the malicious redirector strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=chaka+demus+and+pliers+music In PDF document text
    • http://files.northlandquiltersguild.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712080/fezegawiv_wewitilifogad_nokoxiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harmonizeyourspace.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302913/6922088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iangarlandfalconry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776063/3e789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caroline-gibbs.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637402/3500215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hansenbuildrestore.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696558/xaxebizanexoje_kesakasesel_nerodu_zekabole.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/1/0436/9140/9562/files/firilezopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7689/4372/files/22257997389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6649/8965/files/17062259108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0432/1184/files/19513560394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sivezijikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zosakasebiribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8769/files/suxapiwozuwanogifopivofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1090/8572/files/figafomanefajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5387/5357/files/24582919428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2131/8818/files/97745828181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/vigatusuzaxo.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_off000072a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A9 5092 bytes
SHA-256: e1c86aac0c13df650768206b725e0de6548e82be6ca2a9bde6e949cad7496ab6
font_01_sfnt_off000083b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83B9 2872 bytes
SHA-256: 7970007277e12455d36930e0d1f0d68b7f44297d08c4a3695f5a9ba91537046e
font_02_sfnt_off00008fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FBF 9836 bytes
SHA-256: e8f4c1edb9dfe2a04b9b6d28c9efb1fcda8b4f521527c2c237b51bacc79f7a36