Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11692a9bd3979335…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 07:46:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4df4673d32f148e5ee884bba8d51ffdd SHA-1: f13230d90dca5b9404f2e51f42b533a4c58b9679 SHA-256: 11692a9bd39793359eff82c5d6b323aa608dfe72bd12fc7a5f24514fd216b23d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bethany+beach+surf+report`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'surf report'. The presence of multiple external PDF links and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

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=bethany+beach+surf+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.martinprice.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696194/1375248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mndeathcollaborative.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/a0d16d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.positivitymagic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738752/vakebuxetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orlandopenamusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712139/zisijarusevarusi.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/1/0429/1395/6007/files/fewodanafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4431/4011/files/texegogozefizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81858120772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0412/5599/files/34990953335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/wokuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9948/0473/files/lapawozijonerisurusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1315/2673/files/tenememunegedipugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7857/3464/files/selozumeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4270/0455/files/sudipefinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8340/6243/files/dafazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8089/9989/files/wuxuwezuxefomuxapaxafeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0755/6258/files/98827718134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9020/files/63239502237.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_off0000630e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x630E 5196 bytes
SHA-256: cddefd3f6775f8ecbee342da55b54e310af6d80463efb501947b32d73d01b898
font_01_sfnt_off000074ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74AB 9864 bytes
SHA-256: 9064c6b9b59b9e08d93d20d4f53044d2966ad3c69d9217df797e15fd97e65303