Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c632ced3dafa4a87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-12 17:39:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b9acbf65235d325ffc879c47d80a6063 SHA-1: bae0882e401a4e01ba1693b85b6ea4bc878154b8 SHA-256: c632ced3dafa4a8762379e8236229f966e29591e6b12e279744cb4208e247859
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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=arterial+blood+gas+interpretation+a+case+study+approach+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm SEO tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the embedded URLs and redirector link are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

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=arterial+blood+gas+interpretation+a+case+study+approach+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nenefut.hansenrestoration.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483144/marexaxakenebokodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamen.mingzhixu.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482853/6116607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cthorwigs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814586/9029941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sifeluvi.crystalobregon.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/5661a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.michiganmidwife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483719/b46bac00f.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/1/0436/2534/9283/files/94913018788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6524/4832/files/xubizobafuwewuzeweviwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3588/0598/files/aditya_hrudayam_telugu_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6975/files/pedialyte_nutrition_label.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8112/5278/files/lovetogodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3573/7755/files/avl_tree_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9789/files/slope_of_parallel_and_perpendicular_lines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/80631861467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/44785186380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2428/0726/files/kindred_graphic_novel_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9755/5108/files/levidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4246/3126/files/internal_audit_plan_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6656/3487/files/nigarofutijevonavanelis.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
🗂 Part of campaign: cthorwigs.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5120 5648 bytes
SHA-256: 32847c2e23aa92c1ec5577bed8a5442745150f454af7edca208ac81ceb0edb57
font_01_sfnt_off0000644d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644D 9748 bytes
SHA-256: 7944a738b9e2857129d178b2bbadc2ea36dbbee754ceadb9267d41315c1ae606