Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8604f68c7b14515b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 12:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ae470f9da36359f2d39b370783ddb7ae SHA-1: 3cfd94e30289eabcbe8899d1dea81e49f6e96cd6 SHA-256: 8604f68c7b14515bdf75daeb5c47ded2f690bf12c24657146085a714b4d35fd8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm, specifically pointing to the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=invent+synonym+formal as a malicious redirector. The document body also contains this URL along with numerous other PDF links, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=invent+synonym+formal In PDF document text
    • http://vumiweka.liveoakchildcarecenter.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302936/507538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annepauley.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453536/34cdfebc96970.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/1/0433/3407/4523/files/47992788829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1185/0918/files/11605158332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0333/0208/files/arjun_reddy_breakup_song_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6446/7357/files/nukofapuzedizafojugido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5894/files/92049250886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4979/3189/files/58248120808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0786/8060/files/kerberos_network_authentication_protocol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7924/files/6717227629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/materialize_css_layout_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2309/6216/files/quran_para_30_with_urdu_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3273/0008/files/90213072565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4718/1718/files/66943376883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7899/9446/files/31752594886.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E3 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 16d8876d8ada67c315bc749e1bbb57182207c52883030a34d094a9287cd81dc8
font_01_sfnt_off000074e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E2 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 676655bddce85e8bf786727ffa71f10700d6fd42878e9e61235d4a7d32b6a91b
font_02_sfnt_off000099bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99BC 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 4c0a3f0893f5e69c6acf0c6b7f036872587aec6188c41bdd40a009ab43c82216