Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c9178184defb64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a7834b9908424113e75295aaf7aa9ee5 SHA-1: eecb86a5817d0aed18690aad5b502657e8c7a06d SHA-256: a2c9178184defb64e6f3e4d975a558e8e5884fc0c8c605e2e031adbcd6105c7d
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=antologia+literaria+5+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2587/4600/files/architectural_design_books_free_download.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the lure text 'Antologia literaria 5 pdf' and the redirector URL, suggesting a social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading malicious content.

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=antologia+literaria+5+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fipojit.walkerspringsbaptistacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437914/390601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.impartalliance.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407625/2be183272a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulukom.biochemmathstutor.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/1ec3e5e9da2.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/1/0432/2587/4600/files/architectural_design_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2865/9869/files/pycharm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7369/0017/files/24712674361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/3100392900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1026/9082/files/nunuridapexekomoxagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0961/2712/files/microsoft_net_famework_1._1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3995/4856/files/jefagejusorubunikunubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/18572541264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/agenda_planner_2020_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0668/1497/files/difference_between_centripetal_and_centrifugal_force.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3092/0871/files/adawat_novel_download.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_off0000f852.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF852 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 961de16e16a43b95aa2b898c98c41a6e416bde9e58e20ca1e82ce9e20facf693
font_01_sfnt_off000109e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E4 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 8857cde707d7e7933d0ccb740f7522b3e2c9c3a2c04845362124126f733af516

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