Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2f72eb26d89ca09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 17:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c099bcb9f54a17b74c80b1aa46e6e8e7 SHA-1: da489872bfffdfbe986dfca368a4166e10694fc3 SHA-256: c2f72eb26d89ca091a961aeb5f47bfee1a41701c9792e3e220fa79219b210d6a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=complex+numbers+mcqs+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including one hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the malicious URL and a benign-looking PDF title, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link.

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=complex+numbers+mcqs+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.educatorkellyhastings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453387/8772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lbwalker.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384663/vidovijemoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zanom.vohrart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740596/rorakijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.americanfoursquare.us/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740218/majibomavapakabopi.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/1/0435/1839/4523/files/condominium_act_of_the_philippines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9675/0742/files/tuxazefigunorapolepukejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5040/1945/files/nawufidoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4459/2021/files/65514547274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3613/7882/files/bticino_magic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2301/5841/files/photosynthesis_and_cellular_respiration_crossword.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0560/7070/files/63688804030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8541/1990/files/1918537676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2093/files/kuxoxarimigabozisasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2440/6933/files/chemistry_lab_apparatus_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9159/1321/files/15440662775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7093/0600/files/feritotofudoxorexoj.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7B 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 9489ceb24434387acb80e92f862c3ee056522d57db6d20ffd20c22eab121e8e5
font_01_sfnt_off00007d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7E 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 844511e743f308a44d21324f3cc86f662654fbf0eee56321d94aa1ce05ccd169
font_02_sfnt_off0000a3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3EA 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 6bd36af83f9cecc02bf75f81bc30fb8c57b3c83693cec0e6e4b4820d6550c9bd