Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7df7dbe99bd770c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 14:22:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5c102dd0a41d0ee08bf79fb26eeace9c SHA-1: ce9dd4c23f9d467af844178c9fb16212f4b94379 SHA-256: 7df7dbe99bd770c301b2cc03d180bc65b5110cc7ba1cfbf61c6ecf3f729a0beb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'igcse biology notes pdf free download' and a URL that appears to be a lure for free downloads. The presence of multiple SEO-optimized PDF links further suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content under the guise of educational resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=igcse+biology+notes+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.younggunsfishingteam.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380687/mojixutodod-sobenidurabakiw-pigotemaro-fareririkovokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detonak.missionpossiblefc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398560/topawipumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kjamstudios.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873943/1da99a173da8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://linux.thai.net/plone/TLWG/thaifonts_scalable/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8797/8913/files/nasasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2784/0669/files/98006799231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3391/1705/files/zonatawelisigodazosebisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5569/files/padakejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7655/8746/files/suzatikeziterisuwejibago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6987/4082/files/grimm_core_rulebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5042/6780/files/xaxifolapiwowalabugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1034/2559/files/judopile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6759/6191/files/97160363588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6457/2569/files/organic_chemistry_solomons_12th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9586/8057/files/rotuwaburimawova.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000166c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166C2 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 85713afcb9091d8b7107c93de814126afb74538d898602e4e41b601c272bbe06
font_01_sfnt_off000179dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179DD 10700 bytes
SHA-256: edca95673afa34236ee06bd71eac07174e3dccec2f9a0485239d37ed8b23aa3a
font_02_sfnt_off00019e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E9A 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 7c12020f0b25e69e85aef4ec85e669d6998e273adc80204ab17be37992fd0bdd
font_03_sfnt_off0001b361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B361 12076 bytes
SHA-256: 805f243b07719f55552fda9d33f04baa7404712def38639d9a36f63ef97b1aeb