Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76759fafcd54d6e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:17:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f443bf1dceebad7de09870f4831d031d SHA-1: 6f759ef2d04893d65b9a5eb889c2edd0ba0770f9 SHA-256: 76759fafcd54d6e2dd2254941f869835741db46e85e72c5769a71ec1fccfaf9d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=linux+shell+scripting+interview+questions+and+answers+pdf', is flagged as malicious. This indicates a likely phishing or scam attempt, using a link farm to distribute malicious content. 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=linux+shell+scripting+interview+questions+and+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.chesterfieldelementarypta.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636903/ec8bed03992e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miriamruberlartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483019/828517e6fc26dc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theactionreport.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874368/6400749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westmountwildrugby.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740596/wemuvevoxijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northfieldrobotics.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871730/f70cef8d3f0c9c.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/1/0430/5246/6325/files/tafelaluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5597/2501/files/bro_code_barney_stinson_francais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23158701460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/telisupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/29548810540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fuxojusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0296/5665/files/project_report_on_systematic_investment_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5381/7749/files/nogagomifajutufifajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5889/6802/files/13564062525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3422/9398/files/noxulotifuvuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7767/1843/files/59814452844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/4791/4394/files/43025536634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6432/6309/files/design_and_build_contract.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3005/9927/files/74953785205.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_off0000a10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA10D 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 537441dc33791168ebc00d9d0c236ab1d1bc889d4053f6018d9487417b852ae7
font_01_sfnt_off0000b411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB411 14000 bytes
SHA-256: 95f21b564c72c726e8167c1da0e329c8f60a08a094af144f65655ce7bce90235
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f