Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89a44dfc8a9639d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.1 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:03:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a6347316eb5d9d54cff4d8e2f558c596 SHA-1: 5a26d35cdcebb84b25647d24fcabbb44fb4cc86a SHA-256: 89a44dfc8a9639d753b59cc29cf7e5089d1d852c47170ca2cf183ac700e9d4ef
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, which is indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=java+string+programs+examples+with+output+pdf', is flagged as malicious and appears to be part of an SEO-based phishing campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content, likely for credential harvesting 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.cc/pify?keyword=java+string+programs+examples+with+output+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fredtheafghan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775735/8040291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tukima.excellart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/6411930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camp-timberlake.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164473/tinuxaxexibaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jeriowa.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164093/powunemajota-rubabejofuk-nitisopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirewo.residenciaholidayrentals.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/334406.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/1/0428/1729/0407/files/install_mtg_arena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2975/6066/files/15512547499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4021/9037/files/pny_window_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4796/0232/files/56950380589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0883/5229/files/gafuziguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9764/4449/files/jedexitigosaluvovavabati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0156/0737/files/82726791856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8468/5224/files/lokupexuxuxokigexidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0835/2679/files/68634926618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1863/3894/files/15660406973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5263/7091/files/long_hair_reference.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/4692/4451/files/television_audience_research.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_off0000a877.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA877 5664 bytes
SHA-256: c07b9f2d18c08bc1cb330a241c6bf9b41cab5cc98bb37b1afdbcc62c3d681b4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000bbad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBAD 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 023840d586c2f3ac1a6466cfa91eaa3dec19118ab2fe6edae4f121bfe09aa867

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