Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70c6b29b30b66224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 12:43:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 810b803f4e0079b6a3e7d40d5b96c59d SHA-1: d907dd736aaa62c8281b23ec7f593516cb5f1534 SHA-256: 70c6b29b30b662242ea2e70fd04e60dc734c65519baa318fbbcae02b630d1fe1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to attract users searching for specific books. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=introduction+to+statistical+learning+book+pdf', is flagged as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. 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=introduction+to+statistical+learning+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mattmediainc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813755/wixasolamelutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fadefa.annbharrison.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/8985494.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/1/0432/8400/5032/files/ximopituwukuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6790/0061/files/81116628846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6408/2073/files/maryland_magisterial_docket_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2860/9186/files/kesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4375/0049/files/chava_kadambari_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5588/3175/files/neonatal_abdominal_wall_defects.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2568/6951/files/lobakinamitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5094/3135/files/jifenedowasobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4674/7803/files/biomagnetismo_pares_por_enfermedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/what_does_tifu_stand_for.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9302/4149/files/29318578767.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63CB 5464 bytes
SHA-256: d686e50b9479b9a332df4c4859788bea1e47ef4947fb5ed92ee6d402d1426bf9
font_01_sfnt_off00007669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7669 10164 bytes
SHA-256: b8f41a5631e2b673b43ab360fdc13b043f7254cff3c4a7edce95bfe9efacc902

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