Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce7e42f27667370b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-27 23:53:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9b2bc1597c50043dc061a6d1e50186b0 SHA-1: 6dc3f143902dca2da9f174df7d64f91537e97f83 SHA-256: ce7e42f27667370b4b82c04d414cf66e6e14d9423c6ba0cb5c691f9a102f1b76
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, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=maxis+drone+free+gun', is designed to lure users with a promise of free items. The document also contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=maxis+drone+free+gun In PDF document text
    • http://moxovuw.omhathayoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398473/3808615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plasynant.cymru/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407625/1376472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.catherinehoodillustration.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969371/2403899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojawu.tony-cimino.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775244/5467614.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/1/0430/2117/2897/files/63850209534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6482/6773/files/virisonitibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3140/3423/files/91844315429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3426/2169/files/3d_animation_courses_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/57819317795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3161/6923/files/themes_of_metaphysical_poetry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3101/0199/files/biwowaditotizojudalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8317/7887/files/52489209830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7386/3842/files/menomelemolafotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0515/7282/files/mobile_champions_league_of_legends_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0363/3051/files/73849231966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5883/0229/files/jexuvizekuru.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_off0000619c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x619C 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 606f9270041db4348f996e14b42a9519b93e04e5a3908c61c6845c4ace40b84a
font_01_sfnt_off00007319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7319 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 13b222d8905aa7b1c69f5f0e73c7ebb359f4ecc592907be9c363d449d4e4d086

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