Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7794e889b9ae2608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 04:21:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f73df26904c2773e8a2c1c8ec5f97319 SHA-1: e9f67d5405e112d6c56371c4bf392959a9692d98 SHA-256: 7794e889b9ae260803c40c8d8e4fcce152676d09ce0569e3d25079675952f64d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a mass link farm designed to appear as a "simple swot analysis template word" and uses a redirector to lead users to various PDF downloads. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=simple+swot+analysis+template+word, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a SEO-based phishing or spamming operation.

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=simple+swot+analysis+template+word In PDF document text
    • http://files.taylorbibat.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437845/kinifikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mdiwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382447/latokukepaxo_masobubol_botewewumoxatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuliluni.electivese.nl/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408183/3347460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xeliti.janetreidwilsonfineart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/zipibabig.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/1/0430/8631/5684/files/big_data_architect_s_handbook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5488/1175/files/risk_management_plan_clinical_trials_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6112/5015/files/movizivadobopisija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3553/files/53234432799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6014/9910/files/gefago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7093/9541/files/beastly_full_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0910/6335/files/uninstall_league_of_legends.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8289/0912/files/73043821278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1306/9210/files/baofeng_uv-_5re_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4382/3517/files/21773396757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2408/0282/files/9485421870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2991/4012/files/revista_atualidades_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9645/7884/files/73934485481.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_off0000652b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x652B 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 6400124b0f15f4ad375f6a9d769325de008a2fcd308c6018d09ab14b4441ee7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000777a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x777A 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 66d11c715a263e575f0fb7defd9b712e9f674c213c80a6d8dc458e2b29688890