Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1bf8cb20cfb2ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 08:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4ec3e3eece440127b62e1501eb7ccb5c SHA-1: 2b5e82381003f2b7864dd446c11f6e02e609a4c9 SHA-256: 9a1bf8cb20cfb2eca36fd15024da4b0c84fb08b1a8bc6d65601765e9d309739b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique commonly used in SEO link farms to drive traffic to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=difference+between+general+and+local+anesthesia+pdf'. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to medical information, aiming to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of many links, including those pointing to Shopify domains, indicates a broad distribution effort.

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=difference+between+general+and+local+anesthesia+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xakurulub.steppingstonesplaycenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070146/cf598080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hillscac.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/wiziwinazoralazutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fejus.langfordlab.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302782/2903468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rewune.helpfulmeditation.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/8145fde8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.solidrockmasons.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070152/bezizu.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/1/0428/9059/2422/files/sat_punctuation_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73930450062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1174/2628/files/jipubavijunuzisuvugerufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6710/4664/files/63426311288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0485/2386/files/microsoft_70_680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2859/4336/files/a_practice_grammar_of_german.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3686/8762/files/videopad_5._03_registration_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1392/2206/files/pibofigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9568/7328/files/86085882824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/how_to_read_journal_articles_in_the_social_sciences.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/33358380597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2399/7856/files/lajeniwesavulopofuvas.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_off00008f54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F54 5648 bytes
SHA-256: 37a1d38948e43f94328ab6a1265e44b7f92d3e08529ef5affc112be8c6f52ddf
font_01_sfnt_off0000a29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA29A 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 60c41849ac9c0118bce6808b9060aa9dc2baaca0ab24d6bc81e12dd8ca1e01d3