Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86cfddffe8650d20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 18:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9db87f559c653f2ca172e43466918f54 SHA-1: 769d7eeea5189ddab327869ab633537f9ae637b3 SHA-256: 86cfddffe8650d2021dfd1438947d8ab8ac6d01d85b3423b7cf337c51c0f0b31
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to a redirector service, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary redirector URL is `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adverbs+of+frequency+questions+exercises+pdf`, which is flagged as malicious. This indicates the document's purpose is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=adverbs+of+frequency+questions+exercises+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.multistrands.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163872/971dc6d529dbf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.margiekorrison.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813899/8286774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thorntonheathcricket.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/3059726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avmheartlandchapter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/5636789.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/1/0438/7789/2251/files/dubobelikobowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2732/5343/files/gepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8357/0078/files/unity_get_all_children.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7451/8178/files/73261144720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5775/0951/files/napidago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0665/6666/files/rawenugudubezupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5131/1513/files/83468707348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6011/8175/files/88992252561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6345/1560/files/22729871768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mabiwabupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7644/3557/files/self_adjoint_operator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3492/6495/files/76720513774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6631/7205/files/calculus_1_exam.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5936 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 4301617f7938ab43076f7a9a6d14f0b8c94365e0d3b651154a0bb2c26e25f74b
font_01_sfnt_off00006ba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BA7 10288 bytes
SHA-256: fcad98f964cb897aeb6f3684d03b604885a9f55aa5cab3adfe5c25aee90d0143

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