Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bfc226ed1928ff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:01:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 857c09b8d86784e03f89c711261d349b SHA-1: c63e158fb40b44c5a651ad1382b3fa07562fdd6c SHA-256: 9bfc226ed1928ff0944040d6a4bf4cdea5b99bef36f08188b5f3b81c2289df40
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=definition+of+supply+chain+management+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking on malicious links. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDF links further indicates a link farm strategy.

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=definition+of+supply+chain+management+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.xchaintechnology.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607053/9525554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.justflowfun.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681660/fusezetu-fuzokenokamirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sunburysandlotcamps.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164081/xogatasajo_sopapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aispng.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874422/januvuzazajofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hsiaoaiwang.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070442/5060bc10eec16.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/1/0431/7433/0517/files/buwukifodasudapidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2505/5389/files/medievil_ps1_rom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/33374625424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0205/2257/files/17226853493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6244/3683/files/74683106861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1987/8048/files/74938067326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/adventist_hymnal_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1827/files/98647770053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4638/8380/files/sibuvefujojavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7446/7478/files/cephalosporins_antibiotics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5787/2038/files/crossfit_level_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/47156414581.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_off00006fd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FD6 5572 bytes
SHA-256: 64afad84fb310f59ec6d4449b360dd816fe88146d912962c8335fabfa77a69ab
font_01_sfnt_off000082bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82BB 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 789e66757cdb4828e9573bab1de4314cc8b8dde9bd3bf9f4e736eea097f825b2