Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 442ce2ec5178a321…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 14:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8c85bcb1a200cdf47b97bbada4b189e2 SHA-1: 4b81e51986f69fcac05f731c3b4e00e92035fb37 SHA-256: 442ce2ec5178a3213de939cac35146c353f180c34026ff311b70f84a9af8f487
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms that the link https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=integrated+resistors+and+capacitors+in+vlsi+design+pdf leads to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm designed to attract traffic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs.

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=integrated+resistors+and+capacitors+in+vlsi+design+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rugulixa.nationsmidwifery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/juxewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ttgymnastics.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741334/3867813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.onewireless.co.za/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163737/ec951ac8d54d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.araigneearcaneservices.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164479/guxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xubes.stlwineguy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437792/xojufipebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0433/9610/4348/files/sebaxusapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2763/5096/files/tajonilaboxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/41101337748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3899/7669/files/54222235266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0408/2851/files/visedufita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4337/2699/files/46807797210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8870/6717/files/vovelaxedenamivejekirazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1817/4107/files/basidiomycota_caracteristicas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1730/4226/files/nunopirewibofudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2329/2822/files/nuwebubifepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2881/4741/files/zozaxatokatuxukexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1947/4856/files/kazuo_inamori_libros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2204/7638/files/28198358580.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008def.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DEF 1788 bytes
SHA-256: 65e4ee343e60e75e677306a9ec97339d9078ee5382c4529978aa0bc8550f5df7
font_01_sfnt_off00009677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9677 5108 bytes
SHA-256: e88d14c4cb7242f6258d0c9aa267821942517c40fd5f846e2355488aee72a531
font_02_sfnt_off0000a7e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7E2 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 80d160a9172cedd823d6313db304add9abd5bdd136290b70f90d2a940f51cdf6
font_03_sfnt_off0000cade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c