Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b4762fff2022cf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fdc6c854f5410ce836555bf263337da1 SHA-1: e8d794235372a0bd7d69127b98c3bdb9fd78d7db SHA-256: 9b4762fff2022cf1b040dd00b0ad9ef182893ace13b767bba8c92bf86f5e5f17
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is designed to lead users to malicious sites. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the title 'Systematic and unsystematic risk in financial management pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to distribute 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=systematic+and+unsystematic+risk+in+financial+management+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jamestanksley.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739379/3208031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pathwayikthus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695629/bexekijazunona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivozib.nyuasap.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968984/kiwuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuxerad.bwwt.us/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/gewana_dagumodi_nukixu.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/1/0431/4929/5770/files/69536408613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3591/7464/files/gravostyle_98_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3459/0878/files/87411830334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3551/5290/files/principles_of_naval_architecture_vol_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5395/6758/files/rofuxekewokuduseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/5125390557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26443777516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/kujexuteruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/64830269039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/tolazawuborutepabexojumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7677/2250/files/56625785562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59854739703.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6262 5744 bytes
SHA-256: 1ef4faa84c1ea0348399cff730750c3820d99934e0f327eb296b40f86a980dfa
font_01_sfnt_off000075e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75E9 10220 bytes
SHA-256: bd12291a9976ab2419a983df83bc18e290a79f2427762d13c99c925e604eb45b

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