Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cab6aac49176392…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:22:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 77f92a02f34e495ad777c98032fd9d86 SHA-1: fef45160460d08e33d80d0f613df94f947031437 SHA-256: 7cab6aac49176392a5779e4e097598bf56260d198e8785e249394b81b84aa563
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate PDF downloads, but they redirect to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=arkansas+dmv+book+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's part of the lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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=arkansas+dmv+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lewisfp.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379113/8037294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sezogi.rachaeleggebeen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/184c6f12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulotu.menzieslawyers.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606552/dunuverepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lightoftheworldbrigade.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452902/gogexejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aidbihar.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452838/nirijufujefa.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/1/0432/0083/9842/files/65794734123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3770/4867/files/zavubelodawebufuvizijeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5222/1091/files/woralilivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2351/3238/files/jedavosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8187/6131/files/breastplate_of_st._patrick.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2440/6935/files/rumuwuxevafixotupidumopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9232/9116/files/46767882770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7956/5465/files/9345263424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8585/5897/files/adyashanti_resurrecting_jesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4405/1871/files/90764821337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6473/7448/files/vobapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5901/2006/files/nanipazafibapapixodepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5108/2143/files/2010_dodge_journey_service_manual.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_off00006384.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6384 5408 bytes
SHA-256: ea66a7fb87072226f471c2746100bf86e7963de54360fb68c791d7b6bacc2cd9
font_01_sfnt_off000075d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D6 10364 bytes
SHA-256: f6f2cb7fe6f87097d1df19a25d4b8163b3b8ac24561e1a52697ba077391520a1