Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac04343a1d02d171…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 01:00:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c4e72790c33d97885b30956ea11aff2c SHA-1: 87113f7a612a385679e712b929625c04024d6914 SHA-256: ac04343a1d02d17156ad65e8e83b5b00adece09f81621f77b693112212e3f764
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=appsc+group+2+mains+syllabus+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link farm indicate a social engineering 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=appsc+group+2+mains+syllabus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tinemogol.thebinghamtonics.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381464/c0a8035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.botanybayh3.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695746/lifabujewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sofiaelghazzali.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969751/bazozobunuz.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/1/0435/8547/0623/files/14367889617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9829/0856/files/denizalifimuwokaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0695/0550/files/57571623036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0936/7461/files/guxerusobaviwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6789/0069/files/moravian_workbench_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7203/4718/files/88274919219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5296/5792/files/bosapovobilavesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/56234312400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0996/4192/files/17726353035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4418/3970/files/42308758769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1486/5575/files/visetojejun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3105/1943/files/govudukaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1792/7837/files/48806817101.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_off00007e7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E7A 5836 bytes
SHA-256: 79a000c4dcb38297474a435ffe29b4718c2c60d1c7567d5ea3cd7295e30a3538
font_01_sfnt_off00009247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9247 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 570325d81f0cc4f64c87b24fb8036afbbe43e9b1c54b3058690f1078930eee79

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