Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1939b20bc1fd1381…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:29:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 976f902a04c9216707600dccbeffff4b SHA-1: 9cd44cf8f07633b48217f60a629dc6f46089d322 SHA-256: 1939b20bc1fd1381250035c08ac7363f862a6abebc491393654b17c282cfce9b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF is designed to appear as a legitimate document about research problems, but it contains numerous links to an SEO redirector. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=criteria+characteristics+of+a+good+research+problem+pdf', leads to a link farm of other PDFs, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the structure suggests an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

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=criteria+characteristics+of+a+good+research+problem+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vitalpomona.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407274/pisidizafemudit_nijadipebipapan_tasijudewetef_muvokikegugule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jaylubordercollies.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871912/ruzomopukijirin_sositulovexefi_kedovujoduxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.churchbestpractices.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380666/xofisikawaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roanclay.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740097/873e71c4897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reusinbysusan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775784/vejuwekikezuke.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/1/0431/3507/4465/files/posaxoregapufabowasuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/24010846798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7463/4403/files/34027255187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/7082322425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0342/8515/files/rutinas_calistenia_en_casa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2679/7976/files/fx_buckley_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7927/7467/files/katoruzotataxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6522/1028/files/20175446138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7807/4022/files/blood_type_a_positive_diet_food_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3621/1357/files/sukogugunelogunifelodibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4343/0305/files/kumojatopidugadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2641/4749/files/32160577199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5639/7474/files/waves_plugins_torrents.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_off00005f42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F42 5612 bytes
SHA-256: d5ea6a8ca236310ed6af802c3b8819dad1a719b57c24d2f5302fedb41c14fbdd
font_01_sfnt_off00007224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7224 9712 bytes
SHA-256: e7a45bbb49175e0f67cb40be4ae9dd367349cff6a40a881ff1cf634262a51d7c