Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 773371c196a1940b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:14:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 520b8f8098763941ae15790cfd042bfc SHA-1: ef78256ac87e644061d3d323cedf30f9a014d234 SHA-256: 773371c196a1940b216620409407e91745cb6485f4773db5c0329b3ff21b37cd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=behaviour+management+strategies+primary+school+pdf, is flagged as malicious. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution. 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.com/pify?keyword=behaviour+management+strategies+primary+school+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hpdowntown.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164574/9be2e0052efa11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.riotbread.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380596/990959bfc32995d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jcarpentertherapies.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816036/4072555.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/1/0432/0821/2638/files/zajaretim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/27335540484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2790/7239/files/wedaxudiwinigozopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3840/7845/files/equidad_de_genero_en_el_ambito_laboral_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/95080670553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/51004666499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4501/1112/files/92085715188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/xosojewuwuwagojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5752/8480/files/86516038143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3251/8555/files/77770554913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26965864763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2641/4743/files/beruseluretinajipilow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/5392954057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0654/8377/files/kenshi_crossbow_required_skill.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_off0000658c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x658C 5780 bytes
SHA-256: 800a4b678d31f58ff8113443154253ebc4d785ea3dedf905c226ba364c0396ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000791f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x791F 9928 bytes
SHA-256: 53e9c793c80ee5870a751f9b99cda71fc31879f207033a562d2437e03f9fbca4