Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 937cd83e2d4fae87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 18:10:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bd8d9cde1ef0aab85e70a47c0f7d8a7d SHA-1: cd4725cbf20ff12d7c9a76fc36414df2ffae19b8 SHA-256: 937cd83e2d4fae87413e650d972e23a3ede80c02bcc41aefe7ecc9332996b610
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chemistry+notes+for+class+11+pdf, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests a SEO-based lure to attract victims searching for educational materials.

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=chemistry+notes+for+class+11+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.monsoonblooms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775092/4910760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mcearlychildhoodprogram.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871633/016078a8478c894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emmanuelyork.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814633/7424754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mdeasonphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454316/rumidomutisufo-kudowu-kogoluwewimewaj-gofazerebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nathanwolff.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856308/nokudefe-jotir-jigixisad-fipaweder.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/1/0435/7403/4600/files/18779583041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7143/1065/files/65918947492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3151/7592/files/identifying_alliteration_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3678/files/93135247217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0081/2952/files/2351733805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8619/8424/files/23271779704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7453/6103/files/62516624392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5447/files/gozipapasawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0265/0020/files/1128013211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2094/9403/files/cerebro_reptiliano_humano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5806/0703/files/98730296035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5293/4044/files/8966202900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9394/1671/files/70956134140.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_off000086e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86E6 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 349f1fd2eaa78adbc612241da56fb95bded78f3cd535036b5191290584303d06
font_01_sfnt_off00009950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9950 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 0cf6baeb481d39c07ee6bfcd8c697967306433aed11d7b8ea607dde5e70bc4b2