Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fe87d3c7ad71f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 06:14:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ab9e45794a3128beb58bdaf2a764cc2e SHA-1: 8c03d43fd1c81751811ff1864d74a359709ab6e9 SHA-256: 9fe87d3c7ad71f206c929626be8681545eeffe3634faf6ce79cefaff8b250f88
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=malling+parkrun+run+report'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to a 'run report', suggesting a lure.

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=malling+parkrun+run+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.jnhospitalityentertainment.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814205/3346390.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/1/0429/2355/7030/files/42712878663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1885/4306/files/19315022430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3493/files/81990493940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7618/1398/files/engineering_economy_7th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9971/6770/files/39258099078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3811/3955/files/10272491692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3540/1112/files/audio_player_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3444/1890/files/64427232559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1820/6888/files/49084423062.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
stream_004_off0000881f.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x881F 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 0b5a23d5943c3b1b621c85cfd2ba2a624320b960108ce1eb09c2f8a65baa3571
font_00_sfnt_off00007770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7770 4880 bytes
SHA-256: f42ce2d1609575f5c5c09484c93e07b54bbbce7c94ffc89b714701e11496885a

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