Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d16f528660f100d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 18:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6940045cdb0a3d9c6a9a440ad8202bd7 SHA-1: 13ca3674dd7bceb96896bc58af82b6b2102056ec SHA-256: 9d16f528660f100d91a0246a23b95c82ae01ba2fff85d7178c1747191bf856f6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive lure, presenting a 'listening test' with answers to trick the user into clicking a link. This link redirects to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=listening+test+1+dreamtime+travel+agency+answers`, which is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains but also include potentially malicious ones. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=listening+test+1+dreamtime+travel+agency+answers In PDF document text
    • http://guxodoje.wyatthersey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/4165522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.onthisplanetearth.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303209/089eea44695f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bodmersjourney.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454317/1104421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://practicepteonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/161_we.mp3In 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/1/0434/6901/3158/files/calendario_serie_a_2020_19_orari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/libros_sobre_alimentacion_saludable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2965/0843/files/segowesilevejefetubivomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9052/3813/files/xemoxorolawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6043/5871/files/komamejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0867/2423/files/28786418023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7854/8630/files/zeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3808/3994/files/after_2_indir_yandex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0513/1421/files/waravagebejewadima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0409/2828/files/sexefifobatalubulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8800/2710/files/zutibagabanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0862/1719/files/facebook_status_love_video_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0572/8152/files/cricket_players_information_in_marathi_language.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_off0000662d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x662D 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 98dd3f3b612f8f9a9b2fd5933eb8d3780dcb2a5e3bc27a231620d63c79dc688a
font_01_sfnt_off000078e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E8 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 1196573bb3347a816a9bbf5018bc3edd92b4f4354421618b55c418082bbb7321