Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e30c729c7f607dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 13:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c0d808b14149abaebf9515780d0d04ae SHA-1: 2bf4df5047a41fab67fdc35b3f1f939ab3ff0cac SHA-256: 2e30c729c7f607dd7d30f0f9e01fe982f23bb7d1609cf65c196887899f4140d6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The embedded URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=chess+apps+for+android+best is a primary indicator of this malicious redirection. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains references to this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a lure to external content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.ru/pify?keyword=chess+apps+for+android+best In PDF document text
    • http://files.bagribybagri.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680986/1780476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cyclebavaria.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775200/xuzolizatelirapabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daydreamscakecompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739919/8fb06e9434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allstarscomedyentertainment.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740391/gujiwewugip-riwanixivoli-xezebito-vaxegokasinaze.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nifafujejugafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4216/files/ipad_annotation_app_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1041/3976/files/penodirofowegokiburepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4773/9811/files/37421479033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8172/files/domejepizorejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8612/4958/files/simezula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/88065476392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/4153/4631/files/pangu_9._0._2_jailbreak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6109/2255/files/99333497232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2351/5294/files/luxubusisepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6072/files/merosulesapowifuvajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0873/5907/files/push_code_to_heroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/ziluzo.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_off00006b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B5D 5140 bytes
SHA-256: dc5b620a5d1fad05cdd840fc5188a12d9e05fbbab88b5fd3380cdc0acaaeff37
font_01_sfnt_off00007cc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CC6 9740 bytes
SHA-256: 24a9e8abebc841842906b2284f8664c4206a539b50f9760ce8be4487632b9bc0