Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084d04498f6f9ae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-07-11 18:07:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fc445702e2f8d794078cddd20a24c87d SHA-1: 6f4d7f8c99092be80a2e92bdc4c08354f09b1c4d SHA-256: 084d04498f6f9ae76a14a1d5b631630ffc9e9abd472b17637e7e42a9b819b0b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on WordPress.com. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=pro+wrestling+simulators, is flagged as malicious. This indicates a phishing or scam campaign using a link farm to distribute malicious content, likely aiming to trick users into downloading malware or visiting fraudulent sites.

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=pro+wrestling+simulators In PDF document text
    • http://files.barrons-conferences.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409170/3066792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blossomsbygeorgia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438667/xijominezokuzawimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jrbcounseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406075/puruvigur-nofelugazoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.datapoints.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740181/dovagutobobura-selifidamanuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stmarymagdalenewpg.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776655/9936640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://nokimep.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/6847510901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sopokep.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/70781469952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavowekike713378800.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tikavizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuremaxetil.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/kirivaziruxiweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welukozajo65126768.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/rudowagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moforowikof.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tujagejirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wiginikinu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/84142261480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zawamibidixa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/54253203369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diwunibe.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/24642910793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobigagebe.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/16050872971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5147/5351/files/46136899675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0325/files/2858327517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7351/9269/files/pifojemimuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/xexigotigebasureliporujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4041/6678/files/galevomuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43396058945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6604/8165/files/68672398680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20597849085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8016/3227/files/27173623749.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_off00006224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6224 4980 bytes
SHA-256: 8d9967fb9f415739f7b07a19a1326d6146c579a1f2ca476b9d2f91d6098cc808
font_01_sfnt_off00007303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7303 10312 bytes
SHA-256: e256ef264e3b854a54b347b8ea5769bd90e4d66bc7e2d75f963389149d11a564