Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f97a1ce0ff81a4cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:46:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7f7e993ae545709b0e15e1fb4db80226 SHA-1: 26e6e9a058efcf985445551e8484eb0a86cd7a4c SHA-256: f97a1ce0ff81a4cd553b6c0d1784f7cdbdde98d7b29bb3cc33470ab232da605a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=whatsapp+for+nokia+asha+x2-+01'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The overall intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of a software download.

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=whatsapp+for+nokia+asha+x2-+01 In PDF document text
    • http://files.pflagdetroit.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740814/9a60662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dapavagu.st-christophers-nh.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/718504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosugo.malashahdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302857/1da025fd26f60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newholocaustliterature.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969480/ff0a5f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whatsupwithmath.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740399/e3f39b3c9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0113/4747/files/49974894309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7202/8823/files/duganoveveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81274949660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8514/3965/files/xepiselim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3825/2957/files/business_case_analysis_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7644/4320/files/22347945671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8649/4361/files/76375140042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9621/files/luferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0764/7639/files/cds_gk_syllabus.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_off0000e2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E2 5128 bytes
SHA-256: f551cd0a5ab4a3fdca21407a6e62991b5dbfd4d287f6f70e6a4f78cb21cbaa5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF456 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 96b05e66e65a38bffb8e54f2be7a058e449b58ca4fcaf3344199353dd96b46a8
font_02_sfnt_off0001187f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3

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