Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d86c22226932e8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-07-29 14:20:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb2c7d423849a6b20c1dc3ab53e2978e SHA-1: c14c4fbb001dd889add2793b880447f1a35ac17e SHA-256: 6d86c22226932e8d695aee74cece0ec4d922a0051feebcd5cb6ffc67a978d004
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=food+test+for+non+reducing+sugar+pdf`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'food test for non reducing sugar pdf'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=food+test+for+non+reducing+sugar+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rifthppd.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873855/781a476cba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marinwoodturningandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454521/ratikoxujoberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cutthecord.us/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303388/doxobobapijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nctroop10.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636988/11503321d260.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97046042130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3598/4029/files/gisabogesepiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/67299129806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5592/2856/files/57024662488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8814/9654/files/ripodavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4134/2108/files/kukadodaxobaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/bikobidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6628/6490/files/suriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8095/8617/files/96251251169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9562/9725/files/donajaxulal.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_off00006e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E6E 5128 bytes
SHA-256: fb3add971fc961cda56af9862b9a93bbe998b421536986bf1a002f2a1099711f
font_01_sfnt_off00007ff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FF0 9872 bytes
SHA-256: 2de8e714b92416cd72857f4e83b0eb96cd7a98ffe24552ba1f000608e31b79cf