Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 150d97f8ec27dbd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 02:04:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a132c731b54ea5de4cb84e1f5109a1de SHA-1: f7fe5004c3356225b6799693052eceb4738d61e1 SHA-256: 150d97f8ec27dbd5043973b607de64c26b28b1bf2077724555698794541642d7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=apologetics+pdf+books, which is designed to lure users with the promise of free books but ultimately leads to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the phishing and redirection attempt.

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=apologetics+pdf+books In PDF document text
    • http://files.theautismproject-flos.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741045/dopapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miltonvthistory.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407459/4682392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westmauigreenway.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411542/bazimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.erinsmithlac.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681910/15caa91.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/1/0435/6984/0283/files/introduction_to_behavioral_economics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1395/6007/files/payment_receipt_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3626/2050/files/kitajogakuxopeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0928/5024/files/jafubuwumidorasakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/0684/0231/files/surge_protection_device_schneider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8482/3205/files/fotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7955/7529/files/29658614906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/peboginesewuxexadamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/depuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xokuwunojuvilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1690/4104/files/60359828753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3440/files/nabovewero.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_off00005e52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E52 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 9e57dbdc365a990ada394b08f560e4e2f3e26684b40176cc5fbd3bfa99baf17b
font_01_sfnt_off00007022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7022 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 0519ee8ce703c081360eb85c029b33ca3ba202d3b5dd9fab5a83cb6d8d5a48b6