Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02617afd80044633…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 09:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 49c794bd6d2ea64e0c9938996e6849c0 SHA-1: 8cd84f96e2cbdd8eb22fcd9c6334588fdea92b6e SHA-256: 02617afd80044633eab107b21ca20cb5b8ffd7c7574c8fca4550ba07c619510e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, masquerading as a download for 'English grammar pdf class 9'. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=english+grammar+pdf+class+9', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=english+grammar+pdf+class+9 In PDF document text
    • http://files.waypointwes.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408204/pudado_bezirukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lknailsandbeauty.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681938/wovaxale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.youglowgirlva.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856574/bideluzokaxukut_bisub_vaburagudipesal_gapibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.5keysyoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813965/3487277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.key2evolve.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874318/zasabuxemer_xawapikiguromik_balasoge.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/1/0428/7964/7900/files/latobokaxotumixudagaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6575/3241/files/bitdefender_gravityzone_advanced_business_security.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2535/7206/files/auditing_assurance_services_a_systematic_approach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7529/7689/files/sofumujivutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3332/9817/files/68041215076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2286/0966/files/42052422131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2468/5975/files/12652210679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5193/4108/files/computer_troubleshooting_beep_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/taxarumevevoditonufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5631/7091/files/nexikoronenegepekixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2906/1032/files/61725626391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0486/files/vekejogonatarozevip.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_off0000669f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x669F 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 1ee5f47df704d462cc8dbb8cab8b44493b1b038a7151adffe6ec9b4b07a246cb
font_01_sfnt_off000079cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CF 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 5e24094d63eba615177f325bb859fd63a045dbec4f6d1d89813c06df13b6e202