Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c1513692cf7167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 17:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7c9deb062c69bbb5f8f1f4797962e160 SHA-1: 563098d413b3002906875ea04e9ca330589f0611 SHA-256: a7c1513692cf7167faa9ede2f959d1a0c47ee1876bae6a6c055019b5c12429a0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=tomb+raider+weapon+parts', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

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.link/pify?keyword=tomb+raider+weapon+parts In PDF document text
    • http://files.landslidetechnology.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/8d2901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movusaziv.tornadoalleychasing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739113/mafenatigo-rojupuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fegusolus.weirfarmartalliance.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483254/ranudevebuvaji_votajudevegoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pabemun.stephcharaska.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379678/bejitip-xapagat-pededabegi.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/1/0432/3105/1943/files/color_code_for_white.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9776/0668/files/24855553582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1762/3957/files/jazoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7266/files/72340659421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2385/9873/files/liroleturuwuxizerewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8049/9879/files/how_to_calculate_annualized_performance_in_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8289/8840/files/remejutosatapotobiravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4229/2390/files/english_worksheet_for_ukg_students.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_off000060fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60FC 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 70ca04df040207e87fbfa4b5f31a810b20f2d2ac35027c00b92ad1849bee5d51
font_01_sfnt_off000072cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72CB 13720 bytes
SHA-256: c998c5e98181c3e330ef722548ce2f101ef939d0f9d052ba192ef580b2818fbe

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