Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a192a822fc3849a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 02:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 96090b5ef5a2217913a73c10f5c19574 SHA-1: e0cd43204a1450216e1eed68762ea5ae0d55a171 SHA-256: a192a822fc3849a36307ca3aebb709afa12562b3e4244da7f3467d10fb54535b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=arr%25C3%25AAte+avec+tes+mensonges+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a malicious site. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious redirector or to appear as a legitimate content aggregator. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=arr%25C3%25AAte+avec+tes+mensonges+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pamelapalmadesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482954/dca6f52f523f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.berrybrook.us/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855981/cce75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.midstatesmeat.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453432/dexefomemo.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/1/0431/1754/3588/files/fijaramot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6356/5718/files/gipisotodivefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8580/files/masuzumofakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7519/0422/files/45820840194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5587/3190/files/vevamumuvexikojudalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8446/1720/files/61505623956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6072/files/31167698932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3442/7047/files/80142359685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1547/0245/files/wovexixipajizefeleviziden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3467/3301/files/matelikisebunanekalog.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_off00005e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E91 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 9572e223ac6918dced5e50664af79f934a30836a258bf60e394bfa5cb3577dbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000717a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x717A 12776 bytes
SHA-256: fc23114380cf56e7be5f83f5584ffd7e4d9dd8ef4e5d5f8720232eb7eb3d6a62