Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce0214a920389094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 03:23:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9fb16d7034cd4036ca3a34cb3e281a6c SHA-1: a85ae989944469a6b7092a7824424a5bc820241f SHA-256: ce0214a9203890948dae64be5153a014fd8c8405b295d887e6eed5642c4f808f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=picsay+pro+apk+old+version+free', is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content or phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=picsay+pro+apk+old+version+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.rq3llc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712040/e45efb931cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mupiwus.waipapalandscapesupplies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380485/tovojadarewogunoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.killianfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637137/gamokiwaz_watibiwabab_jugij.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/1/0432/8561/0654/files/sogeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/23957356565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1880/3605/files/18978999056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2042/5115/files/73785438766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0138/files/80607128406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4119/3110/files/tamakagibabibofal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5653/7493/files/5685337966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3476/9565/files/botany_practical_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7414/files/ipad_pro_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8343/9003/files/15_sec_timer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/animal_description_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2483/4975/files/nopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7208/6435/files/gipaduviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/muvazoburejodibenamika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5727/4270/files/fortune_1_minecraft.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_off000068ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68AB 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 4777c469941f6d98a45061c2dac1ece38db03ec660dd7ecadd69327c9415a6f1
font_01_sfnt_off00007b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B0F 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 9c4b497d1187c11822be5f263c6c11888cf522fc7222a49166cb4a7925331476
font_02_sfnt_off00009f7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F7D 16124 bytes
SHA-256: 9c09c3f45a19043a702cc6be33398a21107241dbefe2e5fcbbd9a22724e33f3d