Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f13cf9a2817e012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4b175f6cc69e099c5712a82374bd2d30 SHA-1: 09f4446a565b49e3e76a6f4c03b682da3168b444 SHA-256: 9f13cf9a2817e01243a7d84176ab9182a882e90d3ac1be1ec86b29a3310cb18c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a mass of external links, masquerading as a download for Adobe Reader. The primary link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=adobe+reader+11.+0+10+for+windows, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the lure and the malicious URL, reinforcing the social engineering attempt. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious downloads.

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=adobe+reader+11.+0+10+for+windows In PDF document text
    • http://fakuzu.radio91.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453495/5545939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theboxdonut.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874114/155016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dandelionartcenter.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303314/690da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lastcallromanceband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438658/1811979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plastersurrey.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681694/dcc47.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/1/0431/7102/0954/files/36832065805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1146/5638/files/basic_grammar_practice_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6200/1821/files/bivokitosudanefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7222/5442/files/fewafupalinirigejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1130/7682/files/wexokowufezawaxesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9461/4940/files/dogowulikokorexetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5350/5946/files/robef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/bright_futures_handbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6290/0374/files/final_fantasy_7_cue_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5556/2398/files/gubedirezexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/44142142743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2324/3176/files/ccrn_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8265/9493/files/lawabenadofozesutejarinat.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_off000062bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62BD 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 5c03d553704d6d5a35cee5907858e4dd0b118efdee5f09c959e10255a9741063
font_01_sfnt_off000074f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74F6 13860 bytes
SHA-256: a42ddc99765d8d9e6332e1b0600b693ee36f595254bb391f229c6dbda0714e59