Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ecd32902a786137…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:14:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1908e93422bc99e70bc9a40987631972 SHA-1: 600f4bce8e3e333d8aafa4429188f0a772585529 SHA-256: 2ecd32902a7861374b4d0490175193b91d1b4e8bfdb7cf3beef0b4133735a3a1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=personality+psychology+larsen+pdf', is associated with known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a coordinated effort to lure users to potentially harmful content.

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=personality+psychology+larsen+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.southpauldingdc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/6199770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adamkaszycki.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857152/zetet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arcofplattecounty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739532/2f9814f7aef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.happybenzene.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437243/5e589654ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creating-coaching-cultures.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871569/319103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9020/6119/files/fofimironukadojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3633/1419/files/free_sex_position_videos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6856/4380/files/sevogamofaweviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6447/5299/files/borotobakokowiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5982/1209/files/95775855320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7937/7830/files/95997669558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4466/7553/files/35880190176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1724/files/rofidozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3545/0774/files/vajoxifipadejuvevid.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C76 5308 bytes
SHA-256: d9de1ffbe125678eb6c3534c7c114288fb644dd304b359c18c2ec8bf3d4c0dfc
font_01_sfnt_off00006e79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E79 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff5bc37cf1daf0a6138d4d04153c3ec18dc0bfc8ad6565ed964f33d0b32d495
font_02_sfnt_off00009203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9203 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f