Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7acf756bbd764fee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:22:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a1f6be9a5ec2a135b69b46a0a557535 SHA-1: 9109827f80273dd5dba07e3107630fd138d526b1 SHA-256: 7acf756bbd764fee9bd9805230b9ecc0af1b69dfa799cf86978a3aaf32cdcf44
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=mcgraw+hill+answer+key+algebra+1`. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking it. The presence of a link farm and redirector indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using the 'answer key' as a pretext. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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.ru/pify?keyword=mcgraw+hill+answer+key+algebra+1 In PDF document text
    • http://litebixek.garthuxdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/2b789aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drtangiethesexdoctor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452904/xozesakofuza-rilinasirog-durinide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tezudibaw.quintessencensemble.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/0c9cf9beb80e913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miregion6.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739628/safag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rockywoodlandforge.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775393/3255747.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/1/0440/9737/2312/files/nitapulevetivipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1230/7618/files/lonely_planet_cuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2520/9256/files/diagnostico_cancer_de_pulmao.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1778/files/jusivanan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2823/1830/files/bcg_matrix_word_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2439/1067/files/37194524715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6423/6968/files/deezloader_remix_4._3._0_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0329/7438/files/gekavulotoxijadupivijiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3883/2800/files/fine_synonym_formal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/autumn_leaves_piano_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9386/9223/files/sasusexusosomixixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5862/4672/files/2000220836.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: drtangiethesexdoctor.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7978 5516 bytes
SHA-256: dffc06c03208d5c9a3e940159f628b9975797118e5daed6a44edb4482b8e8d66
font_01_sfnt_off00008c5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C5E 13396 bytes
SHA-256: 7cd71890d597a43eb592ccd78694f0a6662d39bb9388ca169aa8e9b4ec809c71