Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aedcd9031179fe86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:11:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f38f01a28df24e612b3df11da387e75a SHA-1: 767c7b3a2061e9f4a2a11c9c456b971890e683d1 SHA-256: aedcd9031179fe86bd3bf8e25c74b7fdba3a09bc3731788b396baeaafaaf1ad2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=stochastic+calculus+pdf, which is presented as a lure for a "stochastic calculus pdf". The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing deeper analysis of the delivery mechanism beyond the link farm.

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=stochastic+calculus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.teachforkosova.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739542/guwijumebono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hauntedmichigan.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814858/gemikisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.circle-m-consulting-llc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969761/61ca0aade95eec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lizzyarden.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398046/3386690.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/1/0434/6295/1062/files/xugunewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1171/6766/files/xovevasitovufalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5399/8487/files/rrb_quantitative_aptitude_questions_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5311/9648/files/what_does_arduous_mean.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0238/7867/files/algebra_for_college_students_robert_blitzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0629/4176/files/captive_prince_volume_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8760/9497/files/resmed_s9_clinician_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6869/4432/files/98710053080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5763/5743/files/xunenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0351/8882/files/clinical_bacteriology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2811/9706/files/74477434554.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a1d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1D1 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 08c4ace1ff0578d65c8ec9b54b539b66680f256711db7b871ec6a4f61ae6f266
font_01_sfnt_off0000b3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B2 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 0a3bea9fcb29822ba61554d77dcdfaad3f0ba3e614762c72d2bea07a53cf545c
font_02_sfnt_off0000e760.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE760 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 1420dafd1d7f2dfa761e853b28ae62ddd52b0317455c747556471704014b7400