Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab7774198a654573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 23:30:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: de5edfc928eb240814d00aef4878c71e SHA-1: 39cd975c4753b8c952578a6a6828402474ee6546 SHA-256: ab7774198a654573d753c579d0251b7de58848fa4aff82c2134794715b383784
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised with a 'Minecraft server picture' keyword, which points to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=minecraft+server+picture'. This heuristic, combined with the presence of a large number of external PDF links, suggests a lure to download further malicious content or engage in a scam. The document also contains a lure for remote support tools, indicating a potential social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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=minecraft+server+picture In PDF document text
    • http://files.wearehopecommunity.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874620/wiwet-kukukuduv-lubapikejikaj-kagupaxagije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thechocolatebar.shop/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969340/02f19aa0d64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.capitalcitymopars.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813401/9065696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rutilawashburnancestry.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813696/dakirukenaferotirux.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/1/0432/1801/0274/files/50093389075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8472/4889/files/39008783572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/timebadisinejorimizuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/95192760322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6546/6270/files/polaris_sportsman_90_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3590/1602/files/zekilewevipirel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8197/3416/files/puwumoxufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4405/9806/files/36079332054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8945/1416/files/41711952048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2588/2518/files/nekobisowabadidamixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7873/7302/files/rolozinujagever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2681/6932/files/numerical_analysis_10th_edition_solutions_manual.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000713b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x713B 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 68189aea6e63cb5fee40d4661fefab6e88c25d91ec6b167645b4d6dd573f599a
font_01_sfnt_off00008287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8287 10580 bytes
SHA-256: db950ae28e059b089ccf7d9a70653330586e391712bfaf527465a1eead5e2a51