Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 096a129ccfc80736…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 03:08:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ef99ccccf9e606acccbf2b9d74a0253 SHA-1: 6f52dabcb16f3c1028a362c59f2c88be800f64cd SHA-256: 096a129ccfc80736af96f935bd1c496f9983961e26a169d18716fd4c6d82e971
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One primary link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=esl+worksheet+for+grade+1', is identified as a malicious redirector. This indicates the document's purpose is to lure users through a deceptive download pretext to malicious infrastructure.

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=esl+worksheet+for+grade+1 In PDF document text
    • http://files.wordsmithphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/2d7377cf2f2f80c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.toralconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/6a26d23286b0c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avsyum.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302876/bebaj-vutetulawuxugip-bitobazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robertthorntononline.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815054/d4c2813e8aa84.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/1/0430/5770/9210/files/approval_form_1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1522/4996/files/94560372737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0523/8692/files/lumemosejovoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/zoxikowufigarowixaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7347/8560/files/vemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7378/8321/files/cuentos_cortos_en_ingles_con_imagenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2878/3002/files/70505268915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2225/3205/files/lil_louis_french_kiss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6294/2106/files/98980610988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/carcharhinus_longimanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/appareil_digestif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/viborovikumowenaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4394/5622/files/act_reading_practice_test_with_answers.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005dec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DEC 5332 bytes
SHA-256: 281a14c18b6dd15bce0a0e6898901775310ef4207774b58815fdecc3c253b809
font_01_sfnt_off00007025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7025 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 5a84ff8b7e07e33f19a95ae812f3c1b2d9b4b87549d321d11fc5480d55f0465b