Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 426124b013c6523c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.7 KB Created: 2020-08-01 12:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6e74ff6cf544a34490bac5add361f2e4 SHA-1: 1d3010266d7b85253de076e049c12fa38f3e94e8 SHA-256: 426124b013c6523c63a02c105619a2a33ccac2fe2d784a4b120a18a65e2a91b8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a calculus textbook solutions manual. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=calculus+larson+9th+edition+solutions+manual+pdf, which likely leads to further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=calculus+larson+9th+edition+solutions+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.peeplesdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776075/lupogekizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pro-help.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482822/towojakolulaxax_lubepamikububo_fagajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.justinthomas.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438708/zunonafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saintcatherineorthodoxchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452735/5a18fb010efa64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.distributivesolar.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813301/3170035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundryIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/LicenseIn 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/1/0431/6001/0912/files/6041215244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0821/2638/files/810861154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0191/3244/files/88664692792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0460/8155/files/kozebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9313/9364/files/11184012267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0531/3177/files/dozadawusiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/33971068516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2921/7958/files/gisexuzinevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8819/9328/files/vizonosabedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6903/1078/files/75751305409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2026/2308/files/kabelogutilolakipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5827/5238/files/povomuxaduwozexofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1912/4382/files/wapopizuwu.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_off00016973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16973 2012 bytes
SHA-256: 2df0ec481a02092c558726d1d7f641e0bc431223264d4eb581407d2a289ee281
font_01_sfnt_off00017238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17238 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 58fe59c83f15c8528bf5060071f289a0b161c65be220a39690438662eb447d91
font_02_sfnt_off0001848a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1848A 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 13144f17e71fe779862494dfdb3b95cc3362876d02e45214a7a7509073bcc7c1