Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89dffa3e46674c2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-28 11:38:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 435bcd3eb7b2cf996a4d506292a2c93e SHA-1: 7978d5c4034b692ae16de2edcca5e26a9f08410d SHA-256: 89dffa3e46674c2b2edaf1f81e4d9b9e027b4af6ecca3b2ea444697b341d9e21
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing attacks. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=apple+airport+time+capsule+manual', which is designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to an 'Apple airport time capsule manual', aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

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=apple+airport+time+capsule+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.casieaceea.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695575/f92b7800957f88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ssfitnesstraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874564/lariraraw_letavapetojewa_safujigefumabe_mamiloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saddlebrookstables.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683289/4300469.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/1/0434/4938/5126/files/lozuropexedakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5381/7749/files/togamimise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5317/0334/files/canon_eos_10d_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4949/9289/files/23778142711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2135/files/billboard_top_100_1978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5185/9611/files/exercice_numration_cm2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6534/files/matrix_hair_color_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2308/1373/files/gilekoteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5058/1662/files/add_watermark_image_google_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1245/4560/files/11255296792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/jorunuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6141/8913/files/exquisito_cadaver_rafael_acevedo.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

Related samples 3

Ranked by shared artifacts, heuristics, extracted URLs, CVEs, and signatures.

Full JSON: related samples API

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005bd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BD7 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 8bda1eb0e9ff3d2acb17a4e834b30c2195d76704bc548f8e77f1046c5b0aa89e
font_01_sfnt_off00006cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF6 10288 bytes
SHA-256: a9e4aed034e952353a50b1ba6c8cb62d4bff4029a87acaf4bfc78f4ad58e2cf3

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.