Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67ba58acbdf446d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 03:40:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7d56633a1c7fca6eb8344bffced6ab14 SHA-1: ad01fb172db03d9c04941b16875af92e4ab42732 SHA-256: 67ba58acbdf446d382d8abe0fc99afbb21f42fd959fe005260233b8becfb4a68
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting educational material ('cxc biology past papers and answers') which is likely a lure. The presence of a large number of PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, suggests a link farm designed to improve SEO for the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the malicious links embedded within the document.

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=cxc+biology+past+papers+and+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.purplehobbies.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857758/vegusivekab_xipigazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fomimino.bridesloveyoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775740/nutevamaboj-faberob-memitadolox-fudenufizozuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.langleysawmill.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380493/1ad7c922.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/1/0432/6519/6197/files/architecture_firms_in_chennai.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8292/3676/files/19284694098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8809/9993/files/rizaxutidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9693/2501/files/nimikefaxixikisipepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2987/3318/files/tyranid_painting_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2468/4955/files/types_of_agricultural_machinery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0067/6003/files/jibopixukavuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4253/5574/files/kakefere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9671/7977/files/14741958327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9821/9420/files/dovosasegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/50398535586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0363/9970/files/download_asterix_bahasa_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7901/6360/files/famogebomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0077/files/as_time_goes_by_piano_solo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4978/8327/files/94809266104.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_off00006ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DED 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 00c3bfe82a0e72b95ac446e9cbaa8cb46d2180a4a941cbada9fe1fa0cf9e47a2
font_01_sfnt_off000080e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E2 11080 bytes
SHA-256: b89b48dafde410d67ca71bf8f390271dafc65d4be54a246b43756f7bd1c458c5