Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c897d3ca73b0ec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 22:40:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bfb23ccf08663fd9eb080dcb49abff85 SHA-1: 8d259bcdd5dc8ef051f626ffc7944138fe74b19b SHA-256: 2c897d3ca73b0ec25e10b0e5a926a15d3ab8e6357d7549d0eeeb4d82feb14761
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=periodic+lateralized+epileptiform+discharge+%25E4%25B8%25AD%25E6%2596%2587`. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the malicious redirector is the most significant finding.

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=periodic+lateralized+epileptiform+discharge+%25E4%25B8%25AD%25E6%2596%2587 In PDF document text
    • http://files.dreamjewels4u.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/f677e9af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.houserootscoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776573/dolafupemureruzibux.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/1/0432/7053/7374/files/70222124255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2171/9959/files/cisco_lab_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9274/5117/files/50793499598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3504/files/33381425037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0185/6668/files/wright_cooper_introduction_to_aircraft_aeroelasticity_and_loads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4818/9603/files/73059753604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5943/6951/files/wokoxisaduruxatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5372/6358/files/rutadawazekuvabosovatumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9728/5027/files/libri_per_bambini_in_spagnolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pelezegagujagemubejapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4586/9985/files/givewosuxarazomomiparilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6119/9526/files/2633601240.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7377 20252 bytes
SHA-256: 784623f9090984d5bdea4c32dbd1d9c0368ade93d0385fd8e14bf7de6d3e9eaa
font_01_sfnt_off0000b3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A7 3112 bytes
SHA-256: c0baa96315eab33a8c9e081962bcf29dd480d0975e9b196fc52905ae9aa82ccf
font_02_sfnt_off0000beac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEAC 5620 bytes
SHA-256: d1b262a1fd027db933e25b509e67617244f0980de84b967333bc6194b4529b6e
font_03_sfnt_off0000d1aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AA 11944 bytes
SHA-256: 0db45a73d5ce1f99d0ff72877ba72caa95fea98732a71445dc7386f2b6355cab