Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe2d229ba79e3cb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-25 09:02:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2e3e53788b875ac19c8f75907b946a15 SHA-1: fefddaa9ab086370ab08282a1a00bacccd47c52a SHA-256: fe2d229ba79e3cb42b3f170a88ecfd4786e877e27f55e11a6fe507e4e813c2c3
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 a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially garbled, contains text referencing "Canyon camera driver" and the malicious URL "https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=canyon+camera+driver", suggesting a phishing lure for a fake download. The presence of numerous external PDF links also indicates a link farm strategy.

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=canyon+camera+driver In PDF document text
    • http://files.monfortestatesdacula.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/226bb98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibawos.lghartphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740505/9944683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rioxpvista.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/36c763c9765.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/1/0433/5327/6574/files/vuvakubaxoxakefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7992/files/ielts_writing_task_2_types.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2795/4840/files/horns_joe_hill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5017/1554/files/beirut_tourist_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/32348770752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0515/7282/files/wukasazuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4550/2626/files/39894573412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6395/files/tesibiliwagoxujomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5391/5043/files/accuracy_and_precision_difference.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_off00005469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5469 4944 bytes
SHA-256: fb4cbd82072a50e033bf1e075e6bf82fe437897591c8de2abc9d9e3829f14834
font_01_sfnt_off00006528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6528 10044 bytes
SHA-256: a9cdb0621907b1c223db89c5492cc41c0d9818b5cd96df7f783a608ad8ad0b75