Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 675b194a4e1b5122…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 13:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ddce2bec3451059eaba12a7e4ee0b85 SHA-1: c69df21ddb7a31855b651955f7db4ab50b9629e2 SHA-256: 675b194a4e1b5122a90375e91ef9c8ecd0f12a0e7f579200a3c9551b9731a38f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to redirector infrastructure, specifically identified as a malicious redirector and an SEO link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of this malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=fundamental+counting+principle+and+probability+worksheet', which is used to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=fundamental+counting+principle+and+probability+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.irayastudycenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381374/294a17b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zejuruper.divinelightandguidance.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712323/refubinoledupawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.purpleinkpublishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437844/mikofoxaxomojope.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/1/0441/1051/2280/files/piecewise_functions_domain_and_range_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69262577592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7182/3262/files/dasusuwekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/26369234237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0428/files/4166223174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3107/5743/files/dimavoxitemipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8030/3270/files/77390895271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7940/1632/files/9488590010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3707/2280/files/jogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5833/0786/files/pubukuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/befirusepozowuxuvodupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5070/3779/files/10th_grade_world_history_workbook_answers.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_off00005e5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E5D 5720 bytes
SHA-256: eeeee696af081cbb683839b3a7f185210e37ffa62f227e394660f450d2c8321a
font_01_sfnt_off000071b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71B0 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 058a06ab3d21bb5ab36db7702b7f077d675eb19ba6f98ac715015871141a2147
font_02_sfnt_off000093d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93D4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230