Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1c323525e26bf01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 15:23:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4131aa6c9486592530206869c7dfe26b SHA-1: 0218b083543cf955a733f1c76b15c26007bfd73b SHA-256: c1c323525e26bf01a66a612610411d48d5014d63b715cd248df1eeb53dc8d2a7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=business+letter+pdf+sample', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, potentially leading to phishing sites or malware downloads. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated.

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=business+letter+pdf+sample In PDF document text
    • http://vuxawop.mhhinsurance.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874655/nexazoxusalik-tapebejurexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.itlarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738484/8a6c57ce6cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.herbrainchild.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384589/2643787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsgreenger.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969659/gonelag-kibewofu-keguvaxusatawu-xodotesedoza.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/1/0434/4581/3413/files/72457109701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5042/6780/files/hey_jude_piano_accompaniment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9037/8903/files/fisibidipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nofalefupipalivudekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0850/files/zomagipizipasakofoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6376/7203/files/understanding_movies_12th_edition_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9869/4049/files/83618080999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4818/9595/files/rational_numbers_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5671/files/48551615891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tekutuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/40412657139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2416/1695/files/67759557170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9973/2633/files/credit_card_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0913/9111/files/18657840161.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_off00006491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6491 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 8b178b946e3d91ce97ddea20bdb87d56bf55259e4bd986af94cec2a6d7335891
font_01_sfnt_off00007642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7642 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 58730033c7617aed7551a7a5e80d0ec0469919c951d0dbcedc507fd5cd01e6e6