Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8627f1fdf0d3e461…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:57:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 388e3f80205979118534a184d1b55d3a SHA-1: ea4b96579aee9e41177041f72a968eaa0fc10f24 SHA-256: 8627f1fdf0d3e46104147bc93af494655b0a1a424c7af79e7dcb16edefdff0b2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm designed to appear as legitimate PDF resources. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=bible+believers+archaeology+pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=bible+believers+archaeology+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stanselmsofshoreham.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814769/9df4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jozake.petraschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407818/sidegezolesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nancydcreativeart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969580/e56ccc4.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/1/0429/1005/6615/files/dezizesigafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4564/8546/files/concord_4_program_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9714/6019/files/41151267662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9622/0572/files/98230363060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2992/8863/files/micrologix_1100_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bobidaxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9493/3665/files/mewimozasezukazafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xigidewepiwunabifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7991/5934/files/gawiwezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1778/0896/files/44462391209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9036/8929/files/23350952394.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_off00007c12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C12 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 87d984c9c26997453b392d2f76f364186b68851ff59c967a85b9439da88042e5
font_01_sfnt_off00008fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FBF 10368 bytes
SHA-256: ca5de81f1c878bb20a1b6d49c033bdda33c798b15c82c74a95503ea6c3c9bfb6
font_02_sfnt_off0000b366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB366 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 0a20a8e8b0f8544fe7d41a36d7428942c757b7875effd204c10228aece9f4358