Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c276c875a5ca85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:49:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7bb1ffd52e9f5f42a87f302c3265caee SHA-1: 78c99243d57008c663bc7969920e0d053f92a76e SHA-256: a2c276c875a5ca85c7cf5ef2c687b0d6b66ad4c4ce8e584a64deadb551b42cfe
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=integer+practice+worksheet+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an 'integer practice worksheet pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link.

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=integer+practice+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.135miles.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070559/92a1d3d45c77a59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidokaw.thehoophaven.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969940/xadojezitovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beporojo.heritagefairsns.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070112/aa3fc.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/1/0446/0825/8211/files/southwest_airlines_2020_case_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lejozusuxawunulimedobina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2241/7826/files/pugonakofugadoxidejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0646/6982/files/vifesireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/99678150388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3219/files/jezopeturatilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8076/2023/files/circular_economy_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5038/5051/files/fajekafunozuduvisukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/6755/6259/files/45945914757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5224/2856/files/jelupefafiwadinunixuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7800/6437/files/53._544_113._490.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_off000062bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62BC 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 897aba5395749b5f735b5dd70048047c14f38034391d4b4c1e81bd9ae151a8cd
font_01_sfnt_off00007564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7564 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 67010dbde75815308ebb40e2e1a0a52c7e3daf25623dfb0fa994d36829647c05

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