Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a3fb989e6ceefc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 06:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0a38de8d70c01e90bb9f2e6e0ac0d439 SHA-1: 9416a758fbdd2bd32aceb1bb9a5caf0d739b605a SHA-256: a7a3fb989e6ceefc45e6b07b05d0ce8b945cae5475075315ac7a2d1f57f42fb0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=1117+adj+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The document body contains obfuscated text and the same malicious URL, reinforcing its role as 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=1117+adj+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.whatthefoodfilm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775968/5185820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.catholicfamilycelebrations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437636/5805799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lordandnikes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740211/muforel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redlakeclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776351/230a1e27db5c0.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/1/0429/3600/8870/files/78065618396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/nanome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3958/0575/files/educational_psychology_research_topics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3280/4504/files/9476342152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0428/0481/files/vokilatajutukisawopogofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6280/files/79726195734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2004/1886/files/yugandhar_kadambari_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9328/5277/files/vaxabagimadewumopego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6835/8807/files/27047910789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1198/0964/files/runasazinimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4365/1741/files/94400835399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3937/5012/files/diesel_kiki_injection_pump_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4374/1083/files/5023616841.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_off00004a1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A1A 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 4824466c521cd42e6decf91301453150dee34aadf14380acb04c1dd893b7c4d8
font_01_sfnt_off00005abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ABD 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 375dcb095a2fd6bae2b9b15e818c6483a6fa5451fbca6df268db2d511dafa880

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