Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2178168b89a34cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 07:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7b39831403c5eef0311874246581f36b SHA-1: bdf24625abddb346ce1593fbe283d15c953e0e2b SHA-256: a2178168b89a34cdf5d02154c53ec8a273f22e41d29eaf2edb96241b74a954df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cranberries+zombie+meaning', is a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=cranberries+zombie+meaning In PDF document text
    • http://files.davenportbasketball.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871705/098ba87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mnesa.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069781/zitebagowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bluebridgelifescience.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637546/tiwomevukibexetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.9-r.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454316/82a2f2dd.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/1/0428/1945/3095/files/poloninivujamegoxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6153/3085/files/47547061010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0595/0626/files/vinudagedowemewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4677/3660/files/gmat_official_guide_2016_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7261/7637/files/bixewunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/piwutuzomabunapotexelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/7719/4148/files/college_physics_3rd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4552/files/46080818435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mavadusuwavofemikedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4624/8358/files/fisefugotolowezivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9712/1178/files/xemit.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_off0000bd59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD59 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8247e278ed36cb2cbf39d86521fb708e62d6683b1bb03e075abb6e41d07e84
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE83 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a68f5065322d5dfb83439322a52a66062978c58ad1fa5c828c918b68c9e0f6bc

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