Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e260401a3dc3028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 07:06:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c46c00a0095eb82371966523347119f SHA-1: d8a2a517be823f34fde21c1da74a082bb2b0e12a SHA-256: 9e260401a3dc3028a988146f3421d214c12d6e7b6e25d96ef5a2a21748188a26
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cultura+aymara+en+bolivia+pdf'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of a link farm, with many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several Shopify URLs, reinforcing the lure.

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=cultura+aymara+en+bolivia+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.feelgoodafterfifty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453924/domibilolugur-ripip-jawere-zijimatevuzolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paddelboden.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384401/89b3a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kariccohairdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774969/f1110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marvinehowe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775396/gogisosawa.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/1/0433/1700/2405/files/lifekikibajenilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3525/5203/files/cms-_xch._33across._com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7839/3762/files/zorofopumebanikopexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9534/1723/files/10422187066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/xapebup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1865/7697/files/gofunekotofarixase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9639/1323/files/99715804077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1724/8672/files/punuwelujuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2299/1007/files/graduation_announcements_wording.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6231/files/mulewelizagoxuzokug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8828/9694/files/53391376441.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_off00009810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9810 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 487e3e4889af0a97808269c60eb8c07598efaf214fe43ffd25b0cba63e4fd396
font_01_sfnt_off0000a9bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9BF 11188 bytes
SHA-256: a689f0a337bda8927d2d9150ddc3815fdb90c403c4ba2c01d47f73d640d40420

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