Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 accd7b054c1dff2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 14:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a5513528919c432df26393a1d52a04b8 SHA-1: 53c967bd30f0575d42c1df64f3cd5e31ebcea36b SHA-256: accd7b054c1dff2afa8b926be690f27f3fc0667c6de8ea8cb8e1e50d5315ac3e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and heuristics indicate it contains a malicious redirector link and a link farm. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=acg+guidelines+gi+bleed', which is likely used to redirect users to a phishing or malware-hosting site. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further 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=acg+guidelines+gi+bleed In PDF document text
    • http://dunavo.retrochem.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412290/titimosorevi_xizik.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/1/0428/1604/5222/files/pixarimatopexavebufegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5266/8830/files/sap_basis_administration.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8428/3033/files/62717073937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4021/8015/files/tozeduvelubetavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4389/8022/files/ultimate_guitar_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0196/0854/files/pizunojojomakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8028/6372/files/razer_booster_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4937/6161/files/comment_fusionner_2_en_un_seul_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1850/1799/files/play_sims_online_without_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
🗂 Part of campaign: retrochem.com 5 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008bb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BB2 4932 bytes
SHA-256: 4c6f61bae1c255eb60cb093ad63ed4bc0bfd457381a07f76ecdbbe76841355d3
font_01_sfnt_off00009c7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C7F 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 7c51848bb0cef164539bf9fb2d070bdbfab6418233853351421ea94b21aec797