Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09ada80665a5b34e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 05:53:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aa9d5ac0de23df693ffbb92017ac532a SHA-1: 9905d87238f9014fd9b6042f7fdb8978183293fa SHA-256: 09ada80665a5b34e9e1cfc6a65d9b391ef6044be9ac77e63c67a2cccb1a8261e
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 an SEO link farm designed to attract victims. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=past+perfect+tense+worksheet+pdf+with+answers', is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.com/pify?keyword=past+perfect+tense+worksheet+pdf+with+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.evolutionprep.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739986/1043932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovugugof.fromtheboulevardtoday.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872225/warenax-mubim-boworapusola-zimaralujepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morningrosehouston.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/8957897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.minihorsedriving.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163976/f3d2b53e811a267.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/1/0436/0844/0990/files/woganaregit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6760/files/32905673970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3914/3574/files/76128114679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7401/9740/files/zatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2917/6232/files/tozekabufataribog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/95635361556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6966/1589/files/wokapudikubewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mutiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8977/2187/files/6450340281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/bejifilesasadafezisumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4501/9045/files/sbi_credit_card_statement_password.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/jexapovulilanofasidek.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_off00006043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6043 5368 bytes
SHA-256: c60217b7913c328dc5359815b4a5ab6e4b7a997bc62aeb16823e98e5757d3cc4
font_01_sfnt_off00007296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7296 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 3e5d3453509c007436bd81907cb8efb6725ebe9bed625b55a4825173ec544bcc