Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad91b252ae8eb297…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:47:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ffe4a6088cca9d03ff7817a0b6fd6d4d SHA-1: df3be883370110d7ac35e23666c21519e6727d42 SHA-256: ad91b252ae8eb29758861c35bee6e3b955820c6cba0b43571c57602f6e7cfdcb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as a download for 'Campbell ap biology 9th edition pdf download'. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=campbell+ap+biology+9th+edition+pdf+download, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=campbell+ap+biology+9th+edition+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://numaja.ekeskogs-ridingacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437508/jirenogif_kumoridesuroliz_kasadulotiresa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theglasshouseretreat.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776487/2640315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bbsimon.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682570/tudijimavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.evangelistictempleofiam.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438113/lirula-sozefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashleyinsurance.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379803/zarak-jafiwuv-liroxaririfag.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/1/0434/8762/5369/files/80152179633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5172/8546/files/history_of_automated_teller_machine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wawufomujemozinabewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6508/8936/files/komanowaxipase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6399/2742/files/59854168622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5064/5157/files/molecular_biophysics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/fadajigozozotabisuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bisadugizutojaririxenudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4974/files/13813514116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8266/9461/files/gosapinimokuxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9896/4117/files/asmaul_husna_bahasa_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3774/files/toyota_4runner_manual_transmission_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2726/5693/files/49442273244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4493/files/guxufufunemexadebovosefu.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_off0000803c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x803C 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 2a13225a8bc0b1799b1b68e251ddc2f3e0f928d1eb50200bcda1951ca326af12
font_01_sfnt_off0000932d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x932D 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 030daf21eeb5a96e36ca332800452dbc27b6ad4b7f6433d4bb7db35f78f01b21