Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2cb084d9e6d6363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 21:23:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 43c379800c0f9ccbff4f537ac0c7560d SHA-1: ea28e09608383cff7463c2bfe964b7080c187900 SHA-256: b2cb084d9e6d63632fbe8dd0e78ca930113cf9e69a55d40c7d08b972bed4dd40
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for a PDF redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=agony+review+game+informer'. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic indicated the presence of numerous external links, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8972/2534/files/human_skeleton_anatomy_activity_answer.pdf' being the first identified. The document body contains obfuscated text and embedded URLs, further supporting the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

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=agony+review+game+informer In PDF document text
    • http://files.southernbelleskeepingchristfirst.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383426/karebafaminelewife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mafasob.charlevoixweddingpastor.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740424/sogete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blockhashpodcast.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379552/7a021b5382e9a47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kevinbirdteachingportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383743/gutesitifabi_jotinojotom_bowine_kivoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hionfi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/majoridojoboxeniraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8972/2534/files/human_skeleton_anatomy_activity_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1712/3478/files/how_do_butene_molecules_form_a_polymer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2363/7399/files/bhagavad_gita_slokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7150/4537/files/metonymy_and_synecdoche_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0432/files/julasulekivutemiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/book_of_vile_darkness_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3136/1686/files/pokemon_soul_silver_guide_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/5110/5686/files/altered_forme_giratina_weakness.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2908/6876/files/70984339946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3233/6791/files/xadebazomamojevosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3665/5259/files/original_star_trek_episodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9460/files/7646169573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0369/9615/files/84037888159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7269/files/jasoxirinawumoxuwomid.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66AE 4828 bytes
SHA-256: 3f0c70606b755d5c15d9e9f96e1e600b127cac091be6b795bde71724d9f48012
font_01_sfnt_off0000770e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x770E 10736 bytes
SHA-256: ff22c36f5450250dbdb1bde24b5953799c1ce233bb7102011338a9d76daefe79
font_02_sfnt_off00009bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BBC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378