Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1e1576ef3b43432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a25164d3704d5fc5f1a80c891b61e584 SHA-1: c250bb18495757c02d61f0b34c9d37c093fa8ac7 SHA-256: b1e1576ef3b43432e95db14cdba71fc70f8c383a4297b55c4e4d4d81bdaeb928
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of these links, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=free+act+english+practice+test+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for a 'free act english practice test pdf'. The presence of a malicious redirector suggests the intent is to lead the user to a malicious site or download further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=free+act+english+practice+test+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.takemetosavaii.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406800/d5016a79e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzaturi.movebeyondit.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/237daa245c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mzapatalaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437074/jugalofozovokaw.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/1/0431/5080/3099/files/80495913412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3009/3728/files/gologogenamamutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6798/8376/files/acids_bases_and_salts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6126/3001/files/da_form_5960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2363/7399/files/minugorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4535/5674/files/jajevaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/65568660713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4885/2894/files/natural_biodegradable_polymers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1533/1227/files/bastar_university_change_time_table_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3146/1016/files/viral_pathogenesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/34530012154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2794/5889/files/cessna_172_service_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_off00006d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D49 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 58e8e7e7aedee78ef8b8494e0cfc1398fdf8b8e7fb19cb56846fedc096792fbd
font_01_sfnt_off00007f8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F8A 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 5c73fa02ca73a728636a6e15c44c033265a47e356c83d47a6a4bcf9d48bfec24