Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce27a8f6bcfc4573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a21ce048bcc0de60f777989d0568f4d6 SHA-1: 9fab0efe01722eb1d6f013463b1509d8f9db9ca3 SHA-256: ce27a8f6bcfc45736d7dbbc6d21b578ac10d1c2b2bdec01bd62edff2c156ea04
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=historical+fiction+definition+pdf'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. 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=historical+fiction+definition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rubysresidences.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874394/toloxi-piruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.feelingsfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070920/rugapefiribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrsboecking.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871648/79192.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/1/0432/3137/9619/files/73137308457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3065/9751/files/zedalemubenume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6204/2529/files/67809424779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2326/9014/files/38593527285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0060/2525/files/pdf_to_word_converter_app_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4180/0860/files/accounting_words_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7831/2355/files/73708310429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4784/5030/files/planck_s_law_of_blackbody_radiation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7002/1014/files/63399708847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9881/6160/files/bacteria_structure_and_function.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8027/7406/files/rajojokixugebibaligafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6500/6494/files/jomapepajisitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9818/6663/files/3666466588.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001282a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282A 5112 bytes
SHA-256: cc9f1a2501885a613bc2de4f54fad7bf9cce21a7717ed320650bf5f7476045d7
font_01_sfnt_off0001399b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1399B 10272 bytes
SHA-256: c88ed826d9c12ed63c2342e9f8a45e3deb35f2054fe27e322ead4e2dc1719da3

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