Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e65a6cc3853633f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 02:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8959ae701c0623070d791132f85d85a8 SHA-1: 5e3724f843e3b0a3d153e868ce9877b233d4bcce SHA-256: 2e65a6cc3853633f8dfa01b21b480dc1235c6e6d1446ac6937c99da055273175
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=8+characteristics+of+living+things+pdf', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The presence of many links to Shopify and other file-hosting services indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the ultimate destination.

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=8+characteristics+of+living+things+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.inspiredbytwoworlds.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/motunalovewi_jesezuzuk_kupitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.breedinggoldenopportunities.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438348/lilisunipuxiwuvemoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balad.adhdsolutionsforlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/8688288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninugifa.theblessedlifeonline.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740362/d12bf8b.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/1/0431/4529/8080/files/gadexuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2644/7525/files/55954565628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/8968/6681/files/binding_of_isaac_rusted_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4979/3174/files/suxudaxevozomovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4191/2997/files/zesedabimulejavupowaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6122/9206/files/32358150434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4504/3880/files/bedroom_vocabulary_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2756/0610/files/13181272847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8714/3839/files/automobile_engineering_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6519/6197/files/coordinate_conjunctions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6052/7265/files/isomerism_ncert.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cancer.gov/coronavirusIn 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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000070ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70BA 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 8f2ae9753a1927a43b423a66a1590515bbcbba0a83e6c31c932e16bdd1d9ea1e
font_01_sfnt_off000083b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83B7 9912 bytes
SHA-256: 5f02a8d4c3412cdf46b3fd50e8460ac9e34281fe0615e7a95dceccf31f94f1c7

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