Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6797b4309b417282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:19:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 98a89cbc6b55c2131a7027d0f5ddfea0 SHA-1: d5bfbd08a10fb122ae2bf972539f918d92287afb SHA-256: 6797b4309b4172829519ddd31c9181df9158d1fddcfb2d48eeb2c65c2cd67a33
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=adjectives+worksheets+for+class+5+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated 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=adjectives+worksheets+for+class+5+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jidazo.bellcitymotorworks.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384429/nugejikosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.montanalanguageteachers.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379217/81740e7af12a7b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.everestcharter.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163832/lidugorabinojelonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.farmtomarkethemp.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775398/vorukugosivupogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aspinehealth.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437295/84c87.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/1/0430/6350/9143/files/cambridge_academic_english_b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6549/1107/files/19844847735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/biludetejuvujatolometa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2230/3911/files/imran_khan_youth_loan_scheme_2020_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9289/3093/files/baxorozevemozazawamadenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3874/4476/files/joxoxenekepiboxixizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8924/7894/files/wugiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2869/8520/files/pentatonix_daft_punk_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/crc_encyclopedia_of_mathematics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9860/3669/files/cenarion_circle_rep_vanilla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0409/2839/files/rubupobikanetopikuvababav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/best_npm_packages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9815/9769/files/widazojekifilomezovipexo.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_off000063f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63F4 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 1c52e2fef8d6346bb2b3d8898926d7764ee170cac9d6db01ce6d944426e7c647
font_01_sfnt_off00007642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7642 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 2ed3878aa47fc96a297fbe08285c040bf387ba722d63b29b2fe80673c3b2ce4f
font_02_sfnt_off00009879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9879 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378