Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a7e9a3b1ffcd704…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 06:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6825af47a2a9cbb3cdca5621ed158b49 SHA-1: c7eede1862beb2d585f15a1c8bd58d0cd3bb7e81 SHA-256: 9a7e9a3b1ffcd704eb5ffb7f486fe3567de01681ad992ab26e875977b75c9caa
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDFs. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=three+branches+of+government+worksheet+2nd+grade, which likely serves as a lure to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further execution chains.

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=three+branches+of+government+worksheet+2nd+grade In PDF document text
    • http://wuminaxu.sombersilence.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/vukokuduwusaku-dadil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pawsinneedanimalrescue.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/6a4325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vivaluxx.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871952/kimokigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimidope.inspiredphotographic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776791/biwedejulez_rerevasepugev_kavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crossdepot.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070216/gomitodakil-repavenebek-gixilibi.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/1/0428/2672/7580/files/18576941854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7147/9709/files/87316899246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8567/6192/files/13311806489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/48085238943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0010/3073/files/contemplated_change_order.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5450/5885/files/xupapazuwofibimile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1442/2677/files/24852790493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6982/files/59469753747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7334/7488/files/vudumuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7453/6103/files/19700909429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3785/9735/files/english_synonyms_word_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5448/1058/files/32205042391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9244/2277/files/xeremunilav.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_off00004ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CA4 5840 bytes
SHA-256: 25f7130dbc707a87967e21eef66b1bdce805ada354fa1cb71b97ceb8fa5a4147
font_01_sfnt_off0000606c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x606C 10536 bytes
SHA-256: f2927aa1bbcbdeeebe85555439fc88b5670035cabea2ed66f5284d9b226a2a39