Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be1c329b80fe6af2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 07:25:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ff2ce76ee11c437db0a4fb9e2dd4f40e SHA-1: 5fd24b16501c7ffaa8e2139e8797bcd56ad97472 SHA-256: be1c329b80fe6af283c263d57887a1b8e0dbb9f05232a948069d849553e03798
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary redirector URL being https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=avast%252A.+lijit.+com. This indicates a link farm or redirection strategy designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links further supports the link farm heuristic. The document body contains obfuscated text and URLs, consistent with attempts to evade detection.

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.com/pify?keyword=avast%252A.+lijit.+com In PDF document text
    • http://files.starrpilatesla.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969265/wetekud_vazuteti_faderowagusiw_gumozogumuboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nelsonnieves.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/586a02df0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jamesgreyinteriors.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379622/8b884672a0bce11.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fejatomamegebuwugibuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8677/4436/files/kufakezojunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2602/1527/files/printrbot_simple_metal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5516/1252/files/38130630732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0925/3281/files/lijorejidinawemife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/xitadonufanugude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7476/5475/files/xojutubazudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0041/4883/files/59191027993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4492/files/digital_design_mano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7335/5419/files/vasexubosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8583/1070/files/75666490898.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_off0000654b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x654B 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 2d974eae526ecd6d29538b6e3904a6d55190dec9e065a43502260739960808c5
font_01_sfnt_off000076a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A0 14052 bytes
SHA-256: 687c160601e8957014c8a2c888d71f19ad0e63b1f08eeaef86c44a515e0779dd