Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cec5e61d79222d09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a847e5715307a22aeb450686acb038af SHA-1: a5fb22fecb5938a2794f0fb9cd4e720166866760 SHA-256: cec5e61d79222d0939b3b0adfd578f5e15b90fe59a09c7d4543244e9cbf687dd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=viva+video+apk+pro+apkpure'. This URL is presented within the document body, likely as a lure for the user to click. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

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.com/pify?keyword=viva+video+apk+pro+apkpure In PDF document text
    • http://files.7seaswriting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453208/fibopi-fonoveke-pibusaropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jamesmatthewwilson.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637057/d1e23bb.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/1/0429/8267/0485/files/bank_alfalah_orbit_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1117/6610/files/barron_s_ielts_superpack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9942/2881/files/megojufovevisedibimaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3802/3592/files/guniwodotoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5097/5910/files/multivariate_data_analysis_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5004/1495/files/54928293863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2440/1063/files/fighter_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3626/9983/files/jokodavibosufajufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/industrial_automated_systems_instrumentation_and_motion_control.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3024/8600/files/7544603731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2537/5130/files/laxijapisaraforuk.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000050fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50FD 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 43624d1a4709b5fe3630d4abafa260bfef658d89173c4e30aa8684ab7c3143ab
font_01_sfnt_off00006185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6185 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 36ea9588dee522d841c1d75ca48a04f376c4bfbde4c5e36ecee80a911e148f00