Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 911cf44933131831…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:53:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1a71b8acac944f280da8a05be3a3980d SHA-1: 7cbadc9530e7b71635f2f9a3c85bbd7ce464e49c SHA-256: 911cf4493313183119e7a8950b048a8999ab240a25ca9b36e7e8412c8831a73c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=algebra+worksheets+year+9'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs. The primary intent appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing educational materials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=algebra+worksheets+year+9 In PDF document text
    • http://makupita.semisrc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/ff05d6bda6aa64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balerilun.waxedbylaurie.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/97345c45f868762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4553/6419/files/komofumusumupiwofina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4288/0160/files/longest_golf_drive_ever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0233/4104/files/guardians_of_the_galaxy_soundtrack_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2426/1026/files/35335430899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4088/2343/files/zipuzunazojagabimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2127/7096/files/apa_citation_style_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7580/6119/files/78636831702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4765/6343/files/87438921216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9228/6363/files/11258326428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5863/3631/files/uc_browser_video_er_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2574/3515/files/pagamogibajobuwixumuzuvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5834/0774/files/jirafisigizajitijedova.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6236 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 945f581ccda81bbc095d03b91cf54ff62f398b0357834c434c42c9717d049b47
font_01_sfnt_off000074e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E8 5852 bytes
SHA-256: 070190071500e4e782f35bfd755afae89b66324ef3097a980fd68c75fb9893f1
font_02_sfnt_off000083a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83A2 13688 bytes
SHA-256: d77e7529d6bc33e4b67a07b4f6e0eb347bff4123153ec4d8b2c969d96c1601f5
font_03_sfnt_off0000aeff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEFF 16028 bytes
SHA-256: 3e66ce8c90719045bf8f6c8d5f716325bbce29c89c8399c9e71e7e90b46a9b16