Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 956cd5d3c0baab02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:58:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 967d6f21744310305b20927e0047dcd8 SHA-1: 0048f488b3b26941e7bca9bd11902a984cdbe7d8 SHA-256: 956cd5d3c0baab029ec9f8d0a06e259ef2a91d4cf5aac78b2b7d018a8591b476
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=the+bible+pdf+old+testament', which is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting it is a primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine visibility for malicious content.

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=the+bible+pdf+old+testament In PDF document text
    • http://files.rethinkstigma.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874240/dazoladanifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vitalgateacupuncture.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814097/710a0763d546a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talloaksmontessori.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739835/gokafovowe_rowufisoguva_dulipapu_gadegavigozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creadesignsboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384156/farepid-rugixebila-guwekufekejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rawsunshine.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384777/badosovot_dowokede.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/1/0436/5756/0217/files/acr_tirads_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6899/5237/files/wexuzeturaninuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0822/4414/files/ford_fusion_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4386/3198/files/weather_for_ridgecrest_ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2482/6014/files/makalah_gangguan_metabolisme_protein.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6645/files/91338330185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6618/6135/files/38095100333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0591/9903/files/xenedexujifokugebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/94705204291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7201/1941/files/60491670554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/tositoxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/11295719407.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_off000067cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67CD 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 7492734ff23cf94d7603308a39331cd564c4da4f1fea975a7c06451ceb2a7373
font_01_sfnt_off00007993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7993 14832 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea769480411f04373e926936b38c23d5155e7542c0558b5b4daa31620eec7a5