Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dce30af1f477dc01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 01:37:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 62e42179f6a8470729aa7e8baf7c2f20 SHA-1: 90062ef508c785607b97f038c5f87d28a63bd003 SHA-256: dce30af1f477dc0158aa3038a9dd2a5888caa40cb6e2d48fcb07937ab8690ca6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=weight+for+age+z+score+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. Additionally, the file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs hosted on various domains, suggesting an attempt to game search engine results or distribute content across multiple sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple unknown and potentially malicious URLs is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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=weight+for+age+z+score+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.nphsjrwolfpack.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/pageponiputi_gosalobire_vopepas_fatibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southwestyogaacademy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856937/6a3e9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.notjustwire.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740606/daluwoxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.continentalmix.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407877/menasegiwulovu-mijofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aumijewels.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695679/6783568b50cf0a.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/1/0431/8868/2916/files/98221240205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/vector_mechanics_for_engineers_dynamics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9112/4643/files/lomodamifexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7106/9594/files/15437195127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9671/6952/files/92522020648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6027/4087/files/9685722968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6059/9711/files/89648959000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0568/8483/files/68263421025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23063093424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3095/3630/files/gilinadidorugabadasugatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6056/0021/files/gakawogiredodavifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30151397197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4622/4551/files/wexirewemofidulo.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_off00006983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6983 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 0cb2900076877d560e4924f57237f9c6adc2eb6d97c2df61174dacf7a56b5e18
font_01_sfnt_off00007c23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C23 10176 bytes
SHA-256: bcc0085eb45bca8c789c744f3abbcfedff5f059d51772a543dbb7ebef7912bde