Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1828b696ca55eb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:49:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4af92c04e41e4b721223ecf561c8fcd3 SHA-1: 790d0f39c35daf97cc89a6672ac11d35b20b947b SHA-256: c1828b696ca55eb046365707d59859f0453347ca5d3d923aba4b4ac59e28e73c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=google+analytics+certification+answers+2018'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting a lure related to 'Google analytics certification answers 2018'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve SEO or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=google+analytics+certification+answers+2018 In PDF document text
    • http://jixumava.danielleleefphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/sogozoziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cuttingedgepoodles.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380641/gazov_dolebito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xezaruwu.paintings4areason.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453109/4997959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mokim.ghanafarmers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382406/ditiwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.littlebluebirdbungalow.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683040/sufer-nalob-fuvonutirewuwot.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/1/0432/1044/0862/files/65593277439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2281/0263/files/29912118560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9092/8026/files/34360724320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5056/4773/files/analogy_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1466/7936/files/island_beach_state_park_fishing_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2589/1479/files/zazerosuzegixesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3275/4841/files/76080575897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0892/5602/files/24539642108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3449/9493/files/99296302852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9124/4696/files/42310846593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1778/9863/files/24798971623.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_off0000b442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB442 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 67fa492dbc5d9dff49d67e808d86e4a24f3481ace25d54fc89c0b623c54caf86
font_01_sfnt_off0000c76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC76B 10524 bytes
SHA-256: ee24e81531844364cb7ed4f205d13e84fbca5cfcfba92ba79e44da423825cb19
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB36 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34