Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec996a50f092c783…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 10:28:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 572d0242d0a551c3f726f3fc3e7dea20 SHA-1: 1f6f85ec1f827e86350f47d12b47d9a540a7e0ec SHA-256: ec996a50f092c783f724ab1615c894445995130a7e2d3b92da70002f7f97cbcc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. One of these links, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=answering+affidavit+meaning, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this malicious URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=answering+affidavit+meaning In PDF document text
    • http://kijid.acerecoverygroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776088/wimudebilunog-xizofadufizegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.7thheavenwithjo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/264ccf18e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.melismata.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814003/2078692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dibas.sataunton.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739777/94655b72.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/1/0434/5869/1232/files/lalepupokogixeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4287/4278/files/lalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4012/6614/files/assam_cabinet_minister_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6189/3534/files/25596929917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2715/files/fipabesitujamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/wogusodonixuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2806/7990/files/frame_of_reference_physics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4713/2068/files/62076463516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2297/4117/files/fonawulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5486/5320/files/rusijutefafelimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9789/1751/files/medomusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3858/6518/files/xofilugupulofawogilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1376/3235/files/anti_tb_drugs_pharmacology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/noviwuvado.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_off00006187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6187 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 0f1d72728453b4f553c005e607b9f4b25847a5b8ffe4319ecb6707e480eae417
font_01_sfnt_off000073aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73AA 11052 bytes
SHA-256: bac0e1692166bd06ef93f7f6a2fdcf950ae2d31240d2350f0531a56654ab242c