Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73c4d7565b2dcac3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 16:22:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b53cec4cea116e72b05481debb33a21d SHA-1: 65b8895c8472dbebc9be302b24c06801b2ed536c SHA-256: 73c4d7565b2dcac3954b3b17a29f69d6df12dd6e80e5347ecf733bb898cf1834
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are part of a link farm designed to appear as legitimate content. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=business+english+writing+advanced+masterclass+pdf', is flagged as malicious and used in conjunction with an image lure, indicating a phishing or scam 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=business+english+writing+advanced+masterclass+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.warrenswcd.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874347/5213841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tixak.bonedesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/2347443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jokamas.smile-movement.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453541/b9371077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelexewef.grandviewcresthoa.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/3582825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alleghenybuilders.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739369/a18ff19b1463.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/1/0430/8064/6807/files/68491686112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2820/0096/files/69310869741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3455/0177/files/japojolilogekusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1310/2998/files/wenudiganoviwakavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0041/4883/files/numoben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5511/files/75635317494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1126/0062/files/29841923014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9639/files/devaleparisekobelete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0294/3909/files/46247402767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9736/7452/files/15100631266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5799/5160/files/vowepisenowaselarugipaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9557/2126/files/xifawofegemiruxeveber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1140/0102/files/duzaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4737/9356/files/ninedomuvifuvubokixaz.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_off00004db2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DB2 5768 bytes
SHA-256: b058d76f9746ddd90e05311e74843847b1e63546670ce6e931120fc4b32ad2e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000613b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613B 9452 bytes
SHA-256: d6b89d6543561148acfe48c442fbc0aa6b88ecb0d3b91eb3cfcf4046212add66
font_02_sfnt_off0000819e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x819E 18500 bytes
SHA-256: bcdb41c598d6bf23703bb1a941982c4245296c86604be9fe128e3971ac406bb9