Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72d2c54e7a7d7131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d384d2c779170062f37f6bb10566d6bd SHA-1: 413584f0f0d783f84f2a2d6de955a86db14f6064 SHA-256: 72d2c54e7a7d713117741e6dcd3b8bc51ba53902c34d79cba372717c05779a0d
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 distribute other PDFs. A primary link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=badoni+sir+maths+book+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector, suggesting the document is a lure for phishing or malware distribution. 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.cc/pify?keyword=badoni+sir+maths+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.makatontrainer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776644/311f11f37d5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greenhousewivesbathco.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383283/9e900ed66dcb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blahberry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/b07d0f5f3f260f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lotusbud.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454190/c698d8cfbd9a.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/32867625585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7322/2294/files/jifebelamipenemonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3067/files/warigedadorusiropekezoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3907/2161/files/26616313264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7316/6757/files/83480725468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6130/5756/files/dorobonofenusekejoraxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7187/1912/files/36801629570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6965/1609/files/33094780491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7650/9080/files/21199505248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/11081380197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2299/1007/files/abdit_nod_32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8992/9116/files/tokutawoxobojesakekuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3247/6838/files/dasidapazafugilabive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0267/files/didawubesomasusexaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0495/2735/files/gifomegufibukume.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_off0000426f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x426F 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 27b1f4ceaea906ac392075d7d6297a84a9dd1ea5913d8e1ad35c17fc36401a7b
font_01_sfnt_off000054f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54F8 9648 bytes
SHA-256: 2d86c6c6c970d7d9015dd9b2b8361b04c9e08b913b9d19110ad8bcac1791b66c