Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dd77d9cf0bf3d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 21:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b9e805588a3cf091f269d1552f72a63d SHA-1: 324ecd70be7b3d2c0722ccb05b2d403225c8337e SHA-256: 1dd77d9cf0bf3d3e1f4697666c3427849ae32118fa5cd4c12c83cecedcfc122d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=essential+calculus+early+transcendentals+2nd+edition+pdf+solutions`. This URL is designed to masquerade as a link to calculus textbook solutions, a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The document also features a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=essential+calculus+early+transcendentals+2nd+edition+pdf+solutions In PDF document text
    • http://files.upscaleresale4kids.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739152/pixuluzimufujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iymstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738943/6004449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stnectariosgeorgegoc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695372/378645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dimitraxidous.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/wipaselemiv-pikalosidobe-lowed.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/1/0431/4205/4048/files/pes_12_com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1242/9723/files/degamiterijokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8206/3777/files/putefato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9854/0949/files/xejujodiwevonuzadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1239/6968/files/krishna_objective_zoology_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/megoxidojixugapilanaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5697/9351/files/rune-_etched_quill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/91396762068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7444/4694/files/beatriz_sarlo_tempo_passado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2657/0664/files/where_to_farm_shal_dorei_silk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0143/0695/files/29755983100.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_off00007e77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E77 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 6f3dc62f0a3d5be2362eb168d95840d9670bd8a6ccbe36a0a58855e11dc1a941
font_01_sfnt_off00009044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9044 13008 bytes
SHA-256: 542abf4faebbde78136e75e2f9ef6d136eb41550ef9ed1a7895b3c3fcad1ff13
font_02_sfnt_off0000ba41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA41 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176