Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b864c378ba1c88e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 02:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e1639c63a2e144c5322c9afb0119d57c SHA-1: 417f5f386e0929fb2a1813ad5f94457e23b102b5 SHA-256: 6b864c378ba1c88ef98870e204f2151a9abe9e07005180c4e6ee0c666143eb2d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure designed to obscure the final destination. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=axelos+prince2+agile+pdf', which is associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to what appear to be SEO-optimized PDF hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=axelos+prince2+agile+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.michellerodesillustration.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381900/825042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ruthbrambleceramics.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969987/xotubuwelugi-podupovazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pccglobalmin.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712661/tisiwowixip-laketat-bexomiloravi-wawofebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ironstonemeadery.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070894/5db44243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robertupstone.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382330/7d732c4.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/1/0435/5204/7263/files/didojoxoresitabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/opposite_of_always_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4750/9416/files/jetusafabivorula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6499/9590/files/rogasakorudagaretisatunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0147/8300/files/15728042616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2956/7387/files/computer_post_and_beep_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4005/5208/files/57091247417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1554/4737/files/finukumoridejupamexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9436/6626/files/xusegowaligoxovumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xokuwunojuvilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7634/6266/files/femomarutelibumawetavugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5827/0101/files/public_holidays_in_karnataka_2020.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DAF 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 427dc9e09724a566160181dc150cc4c20beef10797770e457cabfa9f6d5396cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000807b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x807B 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 1ed075c2c23f66c0352f264bb049c1946ae0a0a1ccce12ff2c88fb5111ddb80d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a38f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA38F 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 54edb9499952c0a8d7e6215c8cf8ce213085ed7723d508bbe872211038d63135