Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 944e2e031dba99be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:33:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 182c5bba28836de02305b3d537a30c79 SHA-1: 8804491ecd558f64bebfe7675cfa520f761242cb SHA-256: 944e2e031dba99bee7ca998b42739005ab4b7b2d2234274581acdeee2c889083
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to benign Shopify domains but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at https://ttraff.cc/pify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=centrales+hidroelectricas+en+el+peru+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.carlisleconcernedcitizens.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437976/7b51d843bb23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.celebrateblackhistory.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410662/faxafikusupugitexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theesteemprojects.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776645/f949b232572cad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richmondathletic.co.nz/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814544/5240515.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/1/0434/5715/1142/files/wisifufaxotoniwomuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0832/7829/files/65387224387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2284/4067/files/epa_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8150/4670/files/dovefolakewelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9394/0629/files/dukinaxejamutobilozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2670/9665/files/lesewajabevotazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5491/6003/files/bharathiar_university_syllabus_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0462/4021/files/certified_ethical_hacker_practice_exams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3644/0726/files/63250397795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9469/5329/files/puzimebiwotomutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5202/2430/files/jedepopinakipoxox.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000087e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87E6 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 9e484822ed27a843092594160d9aa7373b6dfc2b0f6b4284b32c2e2591cd1da0
font_01_sfnt_off0000995b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x995B 11600 bytes
SHA-256: fbad1a9a87c6ead56e5a1487b10123459fcfa77dd373a4a52b74e8794774e4c0

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