Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac6d80e92b1b315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 00:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ae2f9961b294e1c09140465f155b5645 SHA-1: da105bd90e3854649820418fce0cfea60f291970 SHA-256: 9ac6d80e92b1b31554632fac5f0fe332eb9784467c3836bdcde1592ad9de115c
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=qualities+of+a+good+science+teacher+pdf'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, leveraging a seemingly innocuous document title to entice clicks. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=qualities+of+a+good+science+teacher+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sunsetparkavenues.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740296/b2c943b6db9bab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theserenityproject.us/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874489/maworuduxigewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prakritidance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379183/1984050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jililuz.gatormbagear.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070476/nefebewowol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fomenapub.evertonnurseryschoolandfamilycentre.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/zefigiwivaka-gexubozoxav-difiwaresotaxu-vovir.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/1/0435/1547/8176/files/94006231630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7880/1822/files/20775307385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3282/files/mopaziguxefixane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0467/1646/files/siduwitosopitanovodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5435/7915/files/tongva_hills_gta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/85774114955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6354/9847/files/47669260477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9376/9894/files/how_to_draw_cartoon_characters_step_by_step.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/77586632344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4485/5195/files/effects_of_air_pollution_in_points.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1488/0405/files/fivibazopidamexenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2840/4632/files/top_100_mame_roms_pack.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_off00006619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6619 5480 bytes
SHA-256: cc5384e0e711f8a5a0bf2206001e3832de1d7e9bb0dfbcd0c42f77fef63c5e88
font_01_sfnt_off000078af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78AF 9964 bytes
SHA-256: 67d43b509516c2a6814cb4874e0d4c10cb1ff6fd89b53e341103c61e9abf9fcb