Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cae220cc6838c96a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 10:50:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4734acc359120cc55c47fda352e7833e SHA-1: 7b5b427869beb7bbaca1bdba2f654c435c166901 SHA-256: cae220cc6838c96aea43f9bb8ec0345773101bbed6e50a383ec129774838f3d7
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including one to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=copano+bay+fishing+report' which is flagged as malicious. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates that the document may be intended to trick the user into providing a password for an archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=copano+bay+fishing+report In PDF document text
    • http://wemanobew.upstagenydanceacademy.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969525/lapubodujexu-pejitug-vanutizoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kimmiyama.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681829/dalusokiputowunufezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.habitatlacrosse.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/lazukeras-retosebofofun-piwufopod-jemikuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xalat.kateholland.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606339/c45c53d47f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moorlearning.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383619/mabin.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/1/0430/7386/3842/files/baseball_weight_training_program.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1287/4394/files/gobilotutabonosimexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7833/6166/files/beliraluwopata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4382/3511/files/buduxezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8526/7097/files/kanuxitowifasibiboleka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4149/6981/files/96987760001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5243/3557/files/rejurisokikugipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/83925539402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/suzuki_bandit_400_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8180/9558/files/nefexuduxupojapotevela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7173/3917/files/jemodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6711/files/rufemalovewexupefo.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_off0000464c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x464C 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 17b4f591b14419ef130734d4a4efb7badc903561855a244612237ce13ba21da4
font_01_sfnt_off00005838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5838 2268 bytes
SHA-256: 67ea045d535a7b637564d9ba52d2e6f4d3fa6ffb81757f9939740f028c42c7d0
font_02_sfnt_off0000626a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x626A 8732 bytes
SHA-256: 36d7eda531fed6b7a3c2b9571bede145f6d45d07abf26b455d0327cbe694d0b6