Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a400c9e925660896…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 13:14:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c3903da07f4c278829be52881f3707b0 SHA-1: 2a7f3f66cc9207af52f5e997025b97503e9d7011 SHA-256: a400c9e925660896a6a2f4e856eea7f829d5c0e45fa4ee56ad19faf892adc14e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=college+physics+etkina+pdf+download', is flagged as a malicious redirector, indicating a high likelihood of leading to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.com/pify?keyword=college+physics+etkina+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.nofires.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696249/bakigazesakegoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stylezbyomi.shop/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303020/946843fca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pspathletes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398088/puzusizizenukuk.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/1/0440/5932/8662/files/92040288954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4368/4503/files/wewilozimojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1044/0862/files/tipesitesituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9542/4165/files/93337496199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3784/1813/files/vikizufewekozanozexaxafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7100/5082/files/93880696080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9105/9097/files/27074240925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6020/8540/files/20624212985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1671/5429/files/dusofivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/68267693511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5906/1670/files/86153491439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7389/6602/files/50527311209.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_off000066d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D2 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 407ae808d0fedc2b6fdb0274d90fd087ad092b2c5b29e534e7e5168af110fe0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000799b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x799B 10852 bytes
SHA-256: fc4e5c2e1d6d41bea060f77d51db37e9330166980c8eb1f25c827b00200eb264

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