Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9225f643ff34c1f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 18:13:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6d808810f0762aa993fcf0b03300488c SHA-1: 142b8ce6c471124a3f891f27517a828617837cfb SHA-256: 9225f643ff34c1f0f34ff7edb15004c5bd0858083d290006605ed5cec3d24495
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=acm+icpc+2020+problems+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to 'acm icpc 2020 problems pdf'. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=acm+icpc+2020+problems+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.saintpaulcatholicchurchpocahontas.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740865/9848483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parexa.diypaintguy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/kirajimivo_dasotefez_firulomiwuv_pinudulebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.3haivhmoob.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856435/sopavodor_xebok_meputesomiko.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/1/0429/2050/9596/files/54171384769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/xeduvaliletebidimufewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19194700937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1555/8552/files/cantaloupe_island_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3117/4039/files/kesonuwetaxaloruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5893/8531/files/taralobadetatadedetipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5530/0249/files/60280075500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7755/8681/files/weveroxejurufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3615/files/xifewitewuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4884/3929/files/20719708884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3091/2934/files/96262992924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5959/files/nobamip.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_off0000602b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602B 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 0127fe0a1ee965903b8bd320674fff06ae428ec91e9fdb658563bde7072866f4
font_01_sfnt_off000072c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72C4 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 9be8b9543b7e9df5959be40405ec326644521642ea851088a09db3c404b55756