Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b5ccb78139010a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:16:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3d3fc91cb930efc68b1c967f85226ad5 SHA-1: 9a737d26be21861183e6c53aa37a7b02175249db SHA-256: 74b5ccb78139010abbea3b6e9824daaa3d3a959ec2bf3faf94b72efd024099fb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=epidemiology+and+biostatistics+pdf, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence score support the assessment of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=epidemiology+and+biostatistics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.darcyclarke.us/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814387/4258394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oasystec.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814024/5386157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.policeaward.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775563/tanejotuvalofij_dajijugusapaju_losakasozojozaf_derofaximaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ameliakatjohnson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379325/wamijudop_semeto.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/1/0430/2385/9873/files/fireeye_cyber_threat_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0427/files/regoravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0351/8882/files/49998563301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6859/7158/files/pumulutimutobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5872/5018/files/xuvogutunufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2829/7381/files/67865861833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2117/0850/files/kameserumolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2956/0481/files/suxejafimewifikuvuxubobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6640/1692/files/tudamotuxegivoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8163/7794/files/7476429708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1237/4174/files/dakoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0627/9323/files/pomizelawakenazisitajeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6707/9830/files/chaos_druid_osrs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8014/7359/files/rads_error_lol_windows_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
🗂 Part of campaign: ameliakatjohnson.com 5 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000779a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x779A 5576 bytes
SHA-256: b1847029dbc3017592082fa30d8567e104a436ff28a8812dca933c464af17f75
font_01_sfnt_off00008a93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A93 10252 bytes
SHA-256: f4e057bb1832c18dc32485d5d12925b35f7e986a65aef60a4255c05b3e95eb19