Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b37ebfda80b309fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 18:40:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b87efd17c9ed69c6ccad3b5ff7c16593 SHA-1: 6621c8e1a87575aaf8c3b9c42004393c5cd2b23f SHA-256: b37ebfda80b309fd3e49f1a3151faf4262ed18c694a06f818736e98661bf3f59
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious link is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=android+studio+gitignore, which likely leads to a malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a social engineering lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=android+studio+gitignore In PDF document text
    • http://files.ilovejuellez.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379894/7659722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.salutecug.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606186/f546490093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nhtelephonemuseum.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814462/gojizoweruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cabads.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874018/juvewolafijajet_toxebebekan_desowakod.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/1/0432/4907/4336/files/69752409883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7985/0398/files/7534340139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1220/2389/files/57434780405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0469/0581/files/vapekarakokabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6191/9396/files/vofedikusozotejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3384/6183/files/best_squarespace_templates_for_photographers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4929/5776/files/tabofawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/32055170756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0550/1852/files/client_engagement_manager_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7362/5500/files/hard_short_riddles_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9456/1188/files/change_to_word_document_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6004/3682/files/lolagobu.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off0000596f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x596F 6904 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef25159ad113fff55294b91e55ac91e952024a5c44e31cceced173ffec729d8
font_01_sfnt_off00006af0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF0 4740 bytes
SHA-256: af4def00ff4d69b216ef372ea3c9960508d3b45b3a72b46c6024ded31c9f573b
font_02_sfnt_off00007b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B19 10776 bytes
SHA-256: b44208a5a17f58a50642b720bad68388aee7f0bf728c3e06e5741e59a208027f