Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a629bc55d1b4805f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 05:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ffd83a662d7724bd3d4933d10e3aa3a1 SHA-1: 64a7fd4358cdd1fe6f97b74fdbad6f88679d7fe3 SHA-256: a629bc55d1b4805f9a75b6966202d6110646c15ffc147244722fc5cbc5eb43e7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cisco+ironport+wsa+user+guide'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a user guide, to entice clicks. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign Shopify links, likely used to mask the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the document body itself is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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.ru/pify?keyword=cisco+ironport+wsa+user+guide In PDF document text
    • http://dowepe.royalmarineser.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696067/73c939504ed6375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marchettetravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871687/wafekowalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pccaz.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710632/7624838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.higgybabyphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814106/nuserawiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hccbillings.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398131/3896076.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/1/0430/7927/0549/files/sample_letters_of_good_moral_character.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5868/files/biology_12_ncert_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gowavofopinesifaremoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5306/2043/files/4633780977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1241/5907/files/31624132867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/fabaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/63332803116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7462/6470/files/finibus_bonorum_et_malorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4424/9499/files/pokemon_reborn_relationship_variables_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1855/0430/files/pisalugobokuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0212/6755/files/65654194019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3646/5559/files/antiemeticos_mecanismo_de_accion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6716/3302/files/39362253439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6467/1909/files/77645990402.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_off000064d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D6 5204 bytes
SHA-256: ad3b0ecead4064dd277fe3d3c70cfbd003dfd496db0db63c19a2837c04b3f8b3
font_01_sfnt_off000076a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A1 10488 bytes
SHA-256: ebba6a913618c854752b1200f32c91cfe9a7701b88de5c5dbdec9f1eb87f54d9