Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7d0c29fc444ad7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:09:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6c3cc928ebdae1ec7673e7b020e2661d SHA-1: 56e25eca7b4eb7848cadfa7e03060eda4ac0ed13 SHA-256: c7d0c29fc444ad7a181b4bf586a76571442fc429e30dde5e8fbf69bf777477df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=anne+of+green+gables+anime'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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.ru/pify?keyword=anne+of+green+gables+anime In PDF document text
    • http://files.fairdistrictsohio.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815115/fobifaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamiwabo.tipsyglasswinery.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740829/4b7cb0f7ddc829a.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/1/0437/9174/5175/files/59384071504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3546/6655/files/73269209701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5630/8123/files/ziwewopafemused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6028/0982/files/52966874792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3850/6146/files/posinixepozawitazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6534/3141/files/kenny_g_havana_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7661/6341/files/54791396058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0878/9413/files/complex_sentences_exercise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5258/9465/files/rokevudusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5474/3200/files/habanera_from_carmen_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3355/9203/files/53813620646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3741/6869/files/nios_hall_ticket_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8834/6262/files/pathogenesis_of_depression.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_off0000aa94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA94 56892 bytes
SHA-256: 7be8ba782132dc9532c7ce10a8a5b5a2c22ef7e8a7c9e895bf771068adfce339
font_01_sfnt_off000156e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156E3 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 74650bacec11b5d55b1dace6b074a1fab525029ed2f5cf1c7dc03b71a9ec4cde
font_02_sfnt_off0001688e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1688E 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 91085bca65ed45f9665377b0c9420d21080305f4be4784b83c496f7360a0074b