Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ef66a616ed18e05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:07:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97f2c9b8692172faf10dcd3b932bdc90 SHA-1: ce2bec4acd311565172d293ae01be7bc3076e6b7 SHA-256: 9ef66a616ed18e0513aefba6c2fe1506b27eb601d04c7a1990158463d823667f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one critical link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=capistrano+valley+christian+school+uniform', which is likely a lure for a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=capistrano+valley+christian+school+uniform In PDF document text
    • http://files.bobcatspanish.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682039/jotutofaw_gaviwuter_jesifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sejedek.surpassyourdreams.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738732/wosazuduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabikuk.getnoticedartdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/e1950da2d1944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cyberedchristianschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637635/2f9dc2261e2282.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/1/0430/6763/7917/files/shipley_proposal_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/kejerixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0940/0214/files/append_matrix_matlab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8308/8547/files/devotchka_how_it_ends.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8811/files/27378343456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/benivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2882/4742/files/oxford_discover_student_book_1_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3644/1752/files/couples_therapy_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3444/files/ad_d_2e_dm_screen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/canzoniere_con_accordi.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_off00005f15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F15 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 1e7c7425de9926b52ec5f0249eee003310245653ab30b0ee6b814e50cf28ae22
font_01_sfnt_off00007112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7112 10836 bytes
SHA-256: c9bf5dd7764aa12f5a1ef177186c9bdbdf7057f22c84c4b4a63ef7e741696f12

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