Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55ceee6dce1ec70a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:41:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b9036aba00b65169c612f75a1fab2e7d SHA-1: 58a68396887452e89add002215e45068162fd21b SHA-256: 55ceee6dce1ec70aae0e1610bc5fb3306bdc296bb75aabc3a3a3218517987c19
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to domains that host PDF files. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=autoimmunity+notes+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a malicious intent.

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=autoimmunity+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.noltextruss.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406036/kukogos-bejinijebewuni-berudiliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thecostaricakid.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874588/8100817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.khairart.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874163/7e050233ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ggatravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407898/5472f2a5144d7c7.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/1/0429/2732/5343/files/99677990056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8435/6509/files/raginirugexijujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3799/files/3166353316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2780/8935/files/18719950406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2505/5389/files/forife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0826/files/legibibezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6515/6508/files/24786554049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1825/files/47646530851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8202/3061/files/form_mv_44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5590/6967/files/1097849453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7302/7749/files/34934294744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9322/0758/files/98739304951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5104/9370/files/36761384038.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_off000087aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87AA 4820 bytes
SHA-256: 1097fd097ae80c9f1bebd0e0bcebfa790ea8086f7dd6a88c7fcb183e9edf3811
font_01_sfnt_off0000980a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x980A 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 7d710a8f83ba7cdf52a580d21e43d3b97e1607be6361c44e55a5facedcbf5fff
font_02_sfnt_off0000bb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB56 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361