Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e95ff7c1f9f153d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-07-20 23:38:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ceb5189c38f0003cd1acbe619d7421bd SHA-1: 44c5a6eb0ee567dd17d41cf24c17e03c45f960cd SHA-256: 2e95ff7c1f9f153dfd05697cce87e51ade8dcdb72e8db76f8f6a38bc48197408
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are hosted on SEO-optimized domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=vivitar+aerial+drone+manual', is flagged as malicious and used in an image lure, indicating a likely phishing pretext to download further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=vivitar+aerial+drone+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.jinhui-mechanics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740252/9dd1fa0be676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aahahandwriting.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454383/kulazojapulikabaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drgordonself.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070144/8905244.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/1/0438/9765/1352/files/5200368175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0965/4432/files/16824869063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/finaluzikovave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lurufoduge.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/20519858702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bewutorabat.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/dazedulefopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezikip.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/96299576966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winasetuto.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/57617213169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanolosu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nokavonadojovitamuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71340125447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7500/files/77841674414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0716/5095/files/pizuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/vomojafogega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3074/files/4925455360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5716/8027/files/23592353699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/76588695657.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_off00008154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8154 4700 bytes
SHA-256: c6eb2466998ee252c3e00093c5278dcb28123e483fe81faf105ffacd24e67683
font_01_sfnt_off0000912f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x912F 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 262772f16305bebcaf6c6b4f66dec2abcefdd30bfdb508cfc2079cf5bc8a4ccd