Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c5a3e1472a22f8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 18:22:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 72bc29fe76a854ac45c659418a6b1c53 SHA-1: c4fa2398760632059a48c2a92b941ca526358320 SHA-256: 7c5a3e1472a22f8f917e5986976da330f835e4a2ea414e5e593fd06f321f0cc7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to an SEO redirector designed to phish for user engagement under the guise of free book downloads. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=search+pdf+books+download', is flagged as malicious. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of these links and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a social engineering attack aimed at redirecting 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.com/pify?keyword=search+pdf+books+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.millerchitty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436956/daa1cc26d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.costigancustompainting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606128/a5866b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebeccalynnphotography.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874518/4840188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mgeducation.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874067/juretalukimif.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/1/0434/6131/2676/files/wegebetavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1481/4885/files/tutorial_camtasia_studio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3575/3639/files/multivariate_t_distribution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2458/7679/files/besuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9736/6436/files/pipexokerezezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9860/3669/files/cenarion_circle_rep_vanilla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7369/2063/files/interpreting_apocalyptic_literature.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/damufezeloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0494/4807/files/vuwoxuxefelipopekaxoxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5569/3470/files/43748440772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9804/6621/files/52526833922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/john_deere_214.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_off00006303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6303 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 0b16d3caa29583164d9b9cf5774aaa342bc5f055a9fe6146e63a1430cbf8d1ad
font_01_sfnt_off000074fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74FC 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 28f2a87a0ee888ab03a1da22e60cd9d0f7e3d5e1d14706cc4ccf3c5371a40db6
font_02_sfnt_off00009809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9809 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3