Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09a4b53409bfc4a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-27 15:16:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2761f45e6d565ce7d1864bada9ad6e89 SHA-1: 82c0f8fd948a9c42ec9db061c6e538daf1778f19 SHA-256: 09a4b53409bfc4a30166f19c6c2125a9c21e5f8734d693ad0db80d4a582d6505
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, masquerading as a grammar book, which is a common lure for phishing or malware distribution. The primary redirector link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=the+grammar+book+3rd+edition, is flagged as malicious. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this document is designed to lead users to harmful 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=the+grammar+book+3rd+edition In PDF document text
    • http://files.projectsforwildlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857315/kanabekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.susanwardbooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814535/f5eb4a020e5c0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dotasata.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696155/4915173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9726/9159/files/hida_brownian_motion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9236/files/puxedipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/adjective_clause_grammar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2334/2495/files/timokomexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2595/6765/files/miracles_performed_by_benson_idahosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0597/5462/files/eureka_quest_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4107/1016/files/aurumscience_switch_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4636/1505/files/botulismo_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7330/files/computer_system_architecture_in_os.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0073/3596/files/jeletelodonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1453/5843/files/learning_english_grammar_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7159/4911/files/lotadimudelorokovurixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2264/5408/files/1784966786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5289/1297/files/school_application_letter_format.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5191 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 7ff5ab32f0d0ab24528cbf6f2124ee79203b27dbc499fccee5b171a5f1fc4adc
font_01_sfnt_off000062da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62DA 9688 bytes
SHA-256: 7c9058be272faf050db7dbb747cf9e283c98488237614348f39e84349ee542b9
font_02_sfnt_off000083e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83E2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3