Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2c72c019d3e3c16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 23:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d181fa552241911543cc0a980e674d26 SHA-1: e6db0fa9d06ea8f4eb7c303a0e25d10af7771c1d SHA-256: d2c72c019d3e3c16a8ff33a28f7520deef808f4df641dc3ba0094712e85aaeb1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=aligning+punch+information'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The presence of numerous PDF links, as noted by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, suggests an attempt to create a link farm or distribute content through multiple redirects. The ML classifier also strongly flagged 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=aligning+punch+information In PDF document text
    • http://files.mckinneypressurewashing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438539/toxekunemo-kezapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikerodon.alloexo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/8c104e694.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/1/0449/9665/7320/files/ditugagujosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9967/5040/files/22244389677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1165/4307/files/apa_format_latex_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5491/5993/files/70256591204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6869/4432/files/xadeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9416/3109/files/zalalidimexegewudurumepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6826/8456/files/club_car_ds_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6454/7741/files/pontiac_engine_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7484/files/duvuxewanubutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8116/9051/files/68683947165.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_off000042ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42FF 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 26782106f2a3e637ccdae19766905cea50b9f896fe68a8bb481fb7a33fa12e35
font_01_sfnt_off000054ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54AD 9908 bytes
SHA-256: cc139c48b92e821d104d07165d1e6fa635dcb364e53d19caf74cc0436d6be9d4

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