Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15d93612d178a500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 00:48:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: de6d2f55972869b0178e0c62b057d0c5 SHA-1: 20b389dd7056d8c8a40416136d4e619611f0ddc5 SHA-256: 15d93612d178a5006500e894f07604fc489ae720ff88faaf8dbb4e401de5ec75
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs, 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=network+cabling+book+pdf', is flagged as malicious and indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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=network+cabling+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ocarmburgosph.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411539/96699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.voicesbubble.us/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071252/xuwivozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thestore99613.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131414743/387fd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maryhigginswebdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775921/fec3396eeff417d.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92283418618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9262/1978/files/fifagebagopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4836/1375/files/mesanusatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8750/4294/files/basic_branches_of_philosophy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1559/files/78104218161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0210/8836/files/59393069334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7369/0017/files/personas_toxicas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0645/9032/files/78281866849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4314/4355/files/fabojegajujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/movikulewerudazuxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3419/7666/files/network_monitoring_for_dummies_solarwinds.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_off0000c259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC259 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 5618f618e550705a9c00cdd40a5fdc360cceb67136f7fc94bdc47e8b3cc103d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4EB 13976 bytes
SHA-256: 56b7c19010e6d0d5611a6ad1becb3481d4725b5ca5526f36114d2a63b54b4f14

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