Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f4e8727af4059ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:57:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 75c4cd87dfc5c113dfcf7a05dd75d428 SHA-1: f5b6a69ef537159569fb9169a3927e4d22237daa SHA-256: 2f4e8727af4059efbbf024767f789be1b808a3bc023bb1f4243c179fca2fa6e4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass external PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through numerous links. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=hipster+guide+chiang+mai, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body contains garbled text along with the malicious URL and several benign Shopify URLs, indicating a likely attempt to lure users to malicious 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=hipster+guide+chiang+mai In PDF document text
    • http://gagib.mimirmarketing.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/basimareg_sajukupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevuze.nanni.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453215/mogurivizorukivono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johanneimmis.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969837/nejadaviwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.balancedpets.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682745/5990b46e.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/1/0434/8100/6244/files/notogowazofodidikixutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7281/3211/files/fonirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6329/5650/files/korn_alone_i_break.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/gufivimezisizifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4365/8650/files/8026935992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/gigapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7996/6628/files/wafijezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/misojini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5717/6986/files/fekunukexuvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0513/8328/files/ronuxezogogevopamopabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9403/2040/files/83996954330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8693/7253/files/candidase_de_repetio.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_off0000743a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x743A 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 6e0365ecec04fc76722796710598feba9e8ea1bf4eaa92e80ad39b1eb450c1c2
font_01_sfnt_off00008670.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8670 10940 bytes
SHA-256: fa255735c07f74fe6c8f77417de7829c1e2860869e36cfcca9b550fc0b5bf124