Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac63363caa6c8cc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 15:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ac1a760b1b38bc2cec8b71dba058d518 SHA-1: 0948c24b36090b0783033145a513fca866676804 SHA-256: ac63363caa6c8cc34698dee108ad9d4e9c109a51f13666272bedcb64186caf59
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical redirector link pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=samsung+software+update+tool+free`. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to trick users into downloading potentially malicious software or visiting further compromised sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent. 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=samsung+software+update+tool+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.cliveyou.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/tegutolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semoxabuw.lawyerslendahand.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/349c8d780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobegak.aggccouncil.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683168/7533163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.montereystanddown.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813546/8743cb.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/1/0434/1065/3338/files/91303387595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7079/1573/files/nigeria_war_movies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9787/files/76026851828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7373/9675/files/bcom_1st_year_financial_accounting_question_paper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1161/6418/files/gta_vici_citi._torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8346/3832/files/82926312277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0352/files/14800621055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1585/6550/files/5742140009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51191810805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8923/1014/files/wejuvibagiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6770/3457/files/xetowaxilovigikafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7319/1588/files/application_form_for_cti_jobs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8861/3281/files/medicinal_plants_in_marathi.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_off00005407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5407 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 1221f8179d52948a322afbfdeaa29f543e20c6585698a5d9a2a42e8895620156
font_01_sfnt_off000066dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66DC 13492 bytes
SHA-256: 2e14b54216e3e002af456fb2f89f71a5292de138836890b495d6700cb7a4f975

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