Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f730f70a2735491…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:41:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4b67a3b46d6b2806f98fa137ab01526b SHA-1: fa34f3ef7958d59cc673c5fc8508db0df76cb56b SHA-256: 8f730f70a27354919bc19a7fb5e67e7ea8993e7636469a64b734b11e19060cb3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=acids+and+bases+grade+12+questions+and+answers+pdf`. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to educational content. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with `https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/aggregate_testing_methods.pdf` being the first listed. The primary intent appears to be social engineering users into visiting the malicious redirector.

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=acids+and+bases+grade+12+questions+and+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.belaccommunications.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437158/9955582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.keithgriffithssquash.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379409/vixedaxomimuziw_xuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.corrythepsychic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/duwopib_jesesinasarijuv.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/1/0434/7274/8710/files/aggregate_testing_methods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6556/3541/files/acatech_industrie_4._0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6013/3031/files/benefits_of_virtualization_in_cloud_computing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0134/8255/files/11207925286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9422/6584/files/noduzowalasimidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7586/1656/files/narrative_report_for_ojt_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59022585862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6871/8242/files/webabapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9279/4774/files/78272065829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1261535930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1991/7717/files/que_es_calicata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7476/5475/files/34475308464.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_off0000c410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC410 5820 bytes
SHA-256: 74f66da7db625937cab8ad79cede3d1938cb03bc12207622a405e95705e7778b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD800 13728 bytes
SHA-256: 50d833eac0126235af02721694fe9d22a7dfee569a1ca657d31eda56ac5c0f57