Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8465572be55ef7de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 01:15:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dc81e55444fdab748768a053c33b1b70 SHA-1: 06136334298b8ae606f9c1a9609c7d113f80944f SHA-256: 8465572be55ef7de389588baf630ae1f2b82009c8904d472004e844395a9926f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on domains associated with SEO link farms and redirectors. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=vocabulary+exercises+for+advanced+students+pdf, is explicitly flagged as malicious. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely to lead users to a malicious site or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded links strongly suggest a malicious intent.

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=vocabulary+exercises+for+advanced+students+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xorofipo.deckpostcaddy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/7ca06f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.monsieurcreations.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303245/zopiruzulewefawawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.andreakim.co/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379692/1954067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blankspacestudiohk.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856672/6f2490351bb9aae.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/1/0440/7122/3446/files/30700297870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1753/3597/files/kunulonerusarorofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3108/4708/files/veraxonabalarejetabobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4017/files/16918725887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3452/5347/files/adeste_fideles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7391/9393/files/4202071048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2521/1296/files/voa_e5_8d_ab_e8_a7_86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3738/2040/files/lewoxarusenagopefogave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8559/4775/files/jikobevusobegadujiviviz.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

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61C3 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 861bfb7eb98dc7af7c83391dffca61cfa056625cfb9ae8633b9119029edcd09e
font_01_sfnt_off00007473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7473 1832 bytes
SHA-256: cd008f8d50b352213f06ba1f4b1b071cd966d7a6c71acff1aeabc275819a8311
font_02_sfnt_off00007d50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D50 10524 bytes
SHA-256: c96c867992e71e4f6638be3b94a5a44a6b0ea8757297d94a3132f90cac414f9d
font_03_sfnt_off0000a14f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA14F 16508 bytes
SHA-256: bf0029f2f65a8d03fc5bc6dac3f89872448ee76276b38fcd79a4881ba082e330