Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c9dbd6454aeff0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9dcc63fb3ca70f0995380a7f1da025ab SHA-1: 9d14ceef6a6116251b26b301461aef16aab5eb35 SHA-256: 86c9dbd6454aeff0a3a17388ac4d121a6678fba15c7fd2d933311a67d54eb949
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for downloading a syllabus, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links supports a high-confidence assessment of 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.com/wb?keyword=lab%20assistant%20exam%20syllabus%202018%20pdf%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.lauraguayartclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814432/6abac0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.majorlaserremoval.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871912/1663834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.benjaminhoffman.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874490/8eb018415f79aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.briancatucciomusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873997/sefal-bided-tifekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.troop53methuen.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775543/rujonedefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9144/3364/files/41510564018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0489/5143/files/31781244592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8667/6117/files/79756364341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8374/1849/files/82982906668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6953/7432/files/11984930566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3039/5552/files/biwamigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65022979336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1248/8348/files/how_to_cite_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7650/files/94720033018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3681/files/long_bodmas_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7567/4014/files/73450910553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9576/7706/files/employee_background_check_form.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E87 5836 bytes
SHA-256: 979024a5cfb5415bcbc8ea9366b2e23ef2de00b7d649dd4e56aaa2920412e07b
font_01_sfnt_off00008267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8267 14136 bytes
SHA-256: 960920ad08be10bf8ad878a43ce0481a0f590a23c48b6fefb8e2b50fc1978cd6
font_02_sfnt_off0000aeee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEEE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
font_03_sfnt_off0000bcf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCF0 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 8b1a8d540b6c474e7a98ada07acf320fdc943e56dd89ee66c75084008a16cebb