Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c7405012a790dc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 12:39:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ce411a1cdcb13988b0c90bdb7e3ffb2 SHA-1: cdfae393caca9c27f1015702ba91191af6572c2e SHA-256: 2c7405012a790dc71f94fe368129b98a2453543b7529947cd20c621d67c2aa9f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=mariage+d+amour+easy+piano+pdf', appears to be a lure, disguised as a search result for a piano tutorial. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further supports the SEO link farm heuristic, indicating a likely attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=mariage+d+amour+easy+piano+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vccburlington.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741556/7976703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terofi.westernheartsracing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738721/2790838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heartfirejourneys.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/03ab49d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupit.chewysuz.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/4362dfe80e60b.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/1/0440/0440/9494/files/anatomy_and_physiology_2_final_exam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8587/9713/files/xalosonodipozoxilakur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8317/7885/files/rigimafasivekazovetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6128/7839/files/87308693297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7014/4158/files/zudijesilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/7062/1605/files/work_permit_renewal_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/65987673535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4893/files/pomovagadipagewopoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5793/7561/files/10564023274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6845/6102/files/gudegugabowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1954/1416/files/39776718558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1643/8438/files/poduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4764/8412/files/zajufavofomusila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7356/7894/files/42245838166.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
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Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000457f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x457F 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 122486bf1339dec7cb0b8082e1e155a3275ea9fc8b94ce2681be84e01adb54c6
font_01_sfnt_off000057ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57ED 3716 bytes
SHA-256: 53e8de73589fc21682140230f5c58806af5a425102db6a6bbbc0141fa55ba4b5
font_02_sfnt_off00006656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6656 9468 bytes
SHA-256: 41966abdd8ed10bfbd237eeaea67b6b24974aaf6ac4078b74f520e69f8df3b7b
font_03_sfnt_off000086f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86F4 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 794d8cc090a449e0d460036171b2d5b2c749cb0dc3f17972c44626ada68ee3d8