Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d005c27c08f688ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

144.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 00:52:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 221981816444c54c1c21780a0fc64d72 SHA-1: a2c73e0fea736aea82d5ffb0fce2ad0b92dbc1ad SHA-256: d005c27c08f688ab551636fbc9e62c2d101ddbd556d06c0bc8187cd1978a591b
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.cc/pify?keyword=80s+anime+boy'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=80s+anime+boy In PDF document text
    • http://files.inplaypilates.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384604/zifivagi-nelobus-tabixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plottwist747.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398143/8898244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.albertaplaidgalloway.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775429/05f7e8cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.audio4n6.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856725/f7bd285c82ce3cf.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/1/0427/7361/0663/files/gixeforirovefinosulewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5188/4445/files/37354909059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovetutokukike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7734/files/98102274182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0593/3730/files/bosofafozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5042/6787/files/nupoxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7503/4520/files/kabenimunategetazifogebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1863/3894/files/24881957944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53522836856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9969/2958/files/gunejizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3317/2885/files/grouped_bar_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/18149391244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7386/3842/files/sibenekibemamokaze.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017e28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E28 37720 bytes
SHA-256: 4ee1e3ad41a480f48b9abfabaf28821ee977fcadbdcf8760a242dfd4b31647a0
font_01_sfnt_off0001f339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F339 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 14ecbad6a908039ef03877c4312085148df1a66fec2b1d9e4ee9948d3f4a4be4
font_02_sfnt_off000204d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x204D0 15672 bytes
SHA-256: 5d98632ec3f0fbc13f75ab4e143872e76264f43332db5bebd8f65a0aa2ffa273

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