Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 864f9cfa960b3059…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 16:03:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 98a747004d87e10bd204d17fb883a074 SHA-1: 447035a6f54f315fdd2ecc891395ce90cd202af4 SHA-256: 864f9cfa960b3059f215642504181f9b9b4c70187a977159b073368d2aff4990
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links to external PDF files, many of which appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to lure users. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=assumptions+of+law+of+demand+pdf, is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the intent is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing documents.

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=assumptions+of+law+of+demand+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.montoyaenglish.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681378/6450283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerewewit.kristamaysart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/wanigebivore-sobuginidapega-gakanomuketif-pixafofinekoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bishophillcolonystoreb.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378868/6973349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ionnibiru.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454523/dafapotegekigidovure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pagesofmypinkdiary.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814227/norozetok-serobufuwujig-pudura-fenoko.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/1/0431/6787/5228/files/62710260869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9065/4870/files/41760067861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9200/9365/files/xtorrent_for_ipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/ncert_class_9_biology_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8083/5482/files/blue_circle_emoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/palafasejuzanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8463/5544/files/42622582476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1708/3803/files/92180261881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2325/4179/files/gigogujimaviferuneruminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1376/6296/files/33177732053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8914/9608/files/sotitijotofo.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_off00006c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C4B 5172 bytes
SHA-256: d2a30a5996f005806e8df0f40b00ac048c833560f398161f9c8f20cffd584dae
font_01_sfnt_off00007de3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DE3 9904 bytes
SHA-256: e7c9e6694af85249b56248ebefe48a81f4b035b59a9ce1fe718375d6433cc135