Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d2f31475331926b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 09:03:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 63537d991e3cc0277b2aafa0e41e748c SHA-1: 8218a3e471900ee6cbeaef0295a52b893764c691 SHA-256: 9d2f31475331926bc0d477abaaa707112814c6e67c630353c9fb3c657ea68ae7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=l+apocope+en+espagnol+pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to artificially boost search engine rankings or distribute content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF files hosted on various domains, reinforcing the redirection and potential distribution vector.

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=l+apocope+en+espagnol+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.scottjoplinarchive.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637385/5810893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.salonnova.hk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606060/rovoluropulava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jalascoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873728/bibovuvogadanibazora.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/1/0431/8094/9659/files/47956382070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9340/9438/files/mifisapukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7110/files/91294407931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4062/0200/files/tazaxogomeronuzotuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6359/1583/files/83113489263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7223/3376/files/46218368011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7028/3173/files/57683222191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6556/3541/files/aishwarya_lakshmi_stotram_in_telugu_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4639/6326/files/gifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2222/8379/files/16537964462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/gosokujubitedopikoj.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_off000062a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62A2 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 8be096aadcbddd572f3f1360c32b7bd43da2fc27c742dde1519393a4a4eeda0f
font_01_sfnt_off00007445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7445 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae80cd5806c4ce1c8ae20010f8f1911e8470bb0f625481b7bd234bc5548bb17