Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c72b321d38bc37e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 16:25:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6234ce2765f766dad341f1f7600bc47f SHA-1: 42b1cc3e3d1d1fcaa180a44d07bdb03f971ce9f8 SHA-256: 5c72b321d38bc37e6ce3f7c1aa7e6bbab55187b2a57b46bd2ffdbb16371ef70c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=biological+wastewater+treatment+third+edition+pdf`. This technique is often used to obscure the final malicious destination and to engage in SEO poisoning for phishing purposes. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the observed redirector behavior.

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=biological+wastewater+treatment+third+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.midpacificowlrobotics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454373/7625064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davidson-eng.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738921/jobideribuva_dujifibebudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rachelpevsner.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969809/8903421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.letspaintarabic.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814024/javojajesika_zifarivosux_jinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.patrickinpanama.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438477/061d1a2c47642c.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/1/0435/2311/3119/files/quizlet_gravity_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2454/0071/files/47554539811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6346/0508/files/thinking_architecture_peter_zumthor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3984/2719/files/building_your_self_esteem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9507/2674/files/waste_management_project_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/distributed_systems_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9496/6421/files/longman_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4421/6727/files/laws_of_attraction_2004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57379697448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2839/7732/files/20825963939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1650/files/xoxogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4423/9510/files/4976603100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6668/7642/files/solving_equations_and_inequalities_quiz.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_off00006912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6912 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 37925dd6da404c38950c193af556659cfcf0768a5a2766cd9d46594d77b30d31
font_01_sfnt_off00007c6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C6A 9900 bytes
SHA-256: ca13e4607e3906c6de5924d4d9d8b317cb1bfcd12d1ac781da79c25a97e2ba1e