Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2e22ebb5306f8e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:53:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1ec3c7a7785522ab9bc57f3e6ab02899 SHA-1: 848f56513ed58c861b027823a2372958c58b9724 SHA-256: c2e22ebb5306f8e62730c6313cda4ad675d6e05da04fc16ebf702abf8e0ab4bb
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a malicious redirector and part of a link farm, specifically luring users with payment-related language. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=accounting+basics+uk+pdf' is a critical indicator of malicious redirection. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a campaign to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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=accounting+basics+uk+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ganaxeka.bradyscustomwoodcraft.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302921/b120260eb79b28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gegaw.cristinavannel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814681/bakitajilanafime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.medicarespecialist.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775033/jugefe-suvigizumekarur-remabogevowi-bilovuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.centralwiballoons.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606789/gevigewakivunobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.primocelloceramics.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873822/nikenekipup.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/1/0433/2191/7598/files/97596644219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3027/3448/files/deloretotujufubuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1220/9315/files/git_pull_master_into_branch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1938/6526/files/1100_basic_english_phrases_for_conversation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2145/8853/files/17648098932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9620/2661/files/alginac_bula_anvisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3644/1767/files/award_certificate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/bacilos_gram_negativos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2252/3288/files/96237901987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7376/3496/files/dynamics_of_machines_by_vijayaraghavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7968/7574/files/janome_new_home_sewing_machine_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7628/0729/files/gewekuzadolubiv.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_off00012c22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C22 5388 bytes
SHA-256: e02c29382bbe16a840d0a7f3fbe829b656c00e6a30199e48f83038ee2ce7e4ab
font_01_sfnt_off00013e8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E8B 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec5982250278112f20c1b5b45c01b2da3d7602ca84a4396ed5fee50ae19ed21