Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af6e155029675c02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 03:49:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 839c0e6aac6958da95eabe9de616360e SHA-1: bff503e3c4ea430b54ba06e0e145de7a9b80a359 SHA-256: af6e155029675c02811ef41ce675d7738ce5725413bfc4794ccb885e6832e22a
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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=belief+in+islam+pdf'. This indicates a phishing or redirection attempt. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL, reinforcing the redirection attempt.

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=belief+in+islam+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.yogasolterra.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164476/baff0b34ba1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redmosaicjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857390/bazunilakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirub.gsjministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/jojipega-vovaf-pevigibuz-binurefimuneseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emmanuelyork.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695244/093e457c49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.speckaylighting.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397946/mexafuzuwobu.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/1/0440/2518/4421/files/5988104997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/49221060197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/membrane_bioreactor_thesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/mudamipebijokavefinepawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9059/9319/files/pawoximukoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1637/2892/files/zikoxobide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7073/2950/files/60170530576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2853/7753/files/68063151510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4343/8244/files/twilight_life_and_death_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4023/4902/files/86935265840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8236/6629/files/mowegaxopot.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_off00008398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8398 5140 bytes
SHA-256: e0dd4a26e011dd153f2f853520e3c59932f8aa7f19c79bb9a4bfdff04b7e9dff
font_01_sfnt_off0000950c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x950C 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 4e49ec52ec1ff032631963951a632b951710aef86b7748e96381c9a055858b2a