Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c8ccae5d1e04628…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-01 22:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: baef0493f698c80ce56d94c215683e94 SHA-1: 9509b6204dca70f292183342f4da0a7951dfd03b SHA-256: 1c8ccae5d1e04628630c42c286b99dfef3617796d2aed3f2bc58ad56b059122c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=mcgraw+hill+anatomy+and+physiology', is identified as a malicious redirector. This indicates the document's purpose is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.com/pify?keyword=mcgraw+hill+anatomy+and+physiology In PDF document text
    • http://files.rattlerbands.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438784/87b954c9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.boltonwilliams.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/gutadisirojuwo-wifamukuba-givigureburul-juxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifespringwesleyan.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739590/fifodedeboneso-tikolasetozu-rofuguxutujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bandofcovers.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775727/kivovaruvosofi-kugisuloxurogik-tezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aliveandworthy.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815370/dcdfe65af04a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/wamukoxeridoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gofifarigomikidapowokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/volobufepafolosovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/wexuvubeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5244/9444/files/jofaxazinapubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2836/4968/files/34720790562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4926/3004/files/kitasuwulorilixedomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/fitbit_alta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8794/6133/files/13089093762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3083/0494/files/93070541699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4170/2567/files/65344091178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5911/7206/files/vefobusimovarulodamunefir.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000583e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x583E 5356 bytes
SHA-256: cde4363787df7080cc8f75e4686013bd417012afa74f85ef9b2174c85823c00c
font_01_sfnt_off00006a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A54 11396 bytes
SHA-256: f626aba8e1d4344276fcfd9840e8b4f6429b78b7c30af973ab4dbec329448aa7
font_02_sfnt_off00008f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F21 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333