Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e9c79a05d15a6c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a99af98c4925ff0fa908cb169e201561 SHA-1: 3c44f84afcacf93a701f9ae532df98e22072d8d8 SHA-256: 6e9c79a05d15a6c5d568c375cc95d3b8e68431cfce68fbcb1d71130510c342c7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=arithmetic+geometry+book+pdf`, which is flagged as malicious. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=arithmetic+geometry+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://biwepopo.massagerevelstokeayla.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969502/neniwugekebavesisuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.littleempirepodcasts.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871625/mitelef_vobamaki_butabuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.abidance.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874379/mijumado.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/1/0430/1311/1961/files/gewinedubifaxaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5778/3718/files/vofezegikazekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7929/5385/files/adobe_reader_for_android_2._2_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2396/5080/files/432588730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7238/8246/files/51612313181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/organic_chemistry_francis_carey_9th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7684/5728/files/proyecto_arquitectonico_de_una_casa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4658/3970/files/52603007178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9103/2216/files/datoforaxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8857/6673/files/github_push_to_new_repo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4335/4781/files/cambridge_english_test_fce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7162/6659/files/compelling_conversations_vk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5322/7936/files/62685939049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3605/5454/files/minecraft_gullivers_mod_1._7._10.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_off00008b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B07 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 1542255707ea212440810fa81f08d456dfcabc44478233ea20b94db42a33bf88
font_01_sfnt_off00009c81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C81 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 5ac4b79406814f1eb4b4dc01a5d7612c174fb0490e08aa8c3b53f18914da1fc3
font_02_sfnt_off0000bfcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFCD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c