Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 043026f1b9364883…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 11:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 977c05986eab1210a522c253f64a343d SHA-1: 67716f80ad5d803f683e92d78f6f99f8d7b936e0 SHA-256: 043026f1b93648831428565d5a33fd99db6018c7034bd90d5c4f08d2fe4a3afb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to attract users searching for specific PDF content. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=comparative+superlative+exercises+pdf+2+eso, is flagged as malicious and likely serves as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=comparative+superlative+exercises+pdf+2+eso In PDF document text
    • http://files.hawaiisportsofficialshalloffame.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452953/bipowizat_vatuvige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robbinsnestcollectibles.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739678/939016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womivepet.naramatachildcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607600/6371825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getupip.trailblazersunit.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606552/sizofoforofegiv.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dagezaluvonanapukinuwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0000/3751/files/bel_ami_livre_de_poche.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5183/5801/files/pabuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0337/7826/files/71371431379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4633/8709/files/arduino_beginners_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1325/7885/files/xadimizezasiwasogosemovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5573/5199/files/25583901102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5893/8531/files/87394227062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8987/0491/files/pafuwojabede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4011/1782/files/fetaniwazibejopefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/terrence_ross_contract.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1802/6140/files/zezewifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3020/0991/files/nexofosaxuzefabogezi.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_off000084b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84B8 5464 bytes
SHA-256: c540d13f0ecd914d0079d4b6b6847138ae082f97158eafcc34de8873a8c574a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000973f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x973F 15572 bytes
SHA-256: ed715e252e27edd723f5936f723a3ab97d616b94fb4c4f01950c4345b5781c90