Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12d702bea6defc34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:11:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1056e2423021ecc755492cbbaebe6a6e SHA-1: af21608a47b54137b43dd07b50d27e717727535e SHA-256: 12d702bea6defc34a17caeeabc394e6ae6e9590f2b002980bac0f0b4c1850cee
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=revised+atlanta+classification+for+acute+pancreatitis+a+pictorial+essay+pdf, suggests a lure to download content, likely for malicious purposes such as phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=revised+atlanta+classification+for+acute+pancreatitis+a+pictorial+essay+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mametcalfe.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814567/galomakanivet-tumorifujita-modiwa-lujaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.digitalsimon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775997/1095754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bethlehem-elgin.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398605/guneruw_nonekiserolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.evolverealty.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740408/kixit-nujatolop-wikixet.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/1/0431/9572/8029/files/7443484275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7982/6597/files/fadagekizujirejonazebutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6345/1549/files/88560927081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1252/9055/files/toxuzavebowajipaxekedabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2033/6807/files/duvizinikokozixeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3579/5354/files/940828958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6006/0567/files/45768353837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8566/9279/files/zarodonada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6341/0845/files/xewutofogokoneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5712/7336/files/4643845611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0696/8483/files/mawodewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0147/9321/files/79700293718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0894/9402/files/nijegowozewexegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7668/8798/files/578821097.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_off00007fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FC7 5320 bytes
SHA-256: a15ceb0f4bf73921094faccb3c30100f557f394dd0c8e9d04347ac430c539e54
font_01_sfnt_off00009203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9203 11548 bytes
SHA-256: c9c242b2df6aa590db358006667f29dfae8e1e2b02b10db3df85283eb28d5243