Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13d0409fcf97597e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:34:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f9c1d75d9ae8a2ff8e7ab020126e7d13 SHA-1: ed30a95c69302387c6b85ff13ed5ce8d5602f4bf SHA-256: 13d0409fcf97597e0d249a541e407b199cd29149adbf5784845e4cfdcc1adbfc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=simple+equations+worksheet+tes`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a lure for a worksheet, likely intended to trick users into downloading a malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links to external PDFs suggests a link farm or SEO abuse for 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.cc/pify?keyword=simple+equations+worksheet+tes In PDF document text
    • http://files.brewwtravels.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969663/difuw-kafogonunoxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matewaj.byhisgracehymns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406947/gujevoxixuretakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zafafo.elizabethfremantle.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397989/sodipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neves.therelaxationpoint.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/2514400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clear-heater.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696263/374a84c4d8746.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/1/0427/6482/8838/files/sepogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8427/4069/files/wedding_photography_poses_bride_and_groom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6454/1852/files/23864655903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7868/0727/files/fox_sports_m3u8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9734/1604/files/61411501496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4524/8407/files/anatomy_of_neck_spaces.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1079/3370/files/asterix_e_cleopatra_portugues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7255/files/ranch_king_mower_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8213/0332/files/zezas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4727/3116/files/baponawafuwezidediluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6042/8962/files/sabejijugigusagazizef.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_off000046dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46DD 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 5fbd30bd1c8aa979050549629b7902535e8830fca880e5f4a6a3e75b54cd5aa8
font_01_sfnt_off0000593f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x593F 9360 bytes
SHA-256: 50b3d8ecf2ae66a2b0ca0126fa39ceb123e5f38cd4347605e5d73df7d7e81ffc

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