Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6798f9dab133fc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 18:01:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7788df54f176905f42df921c3138d9cf SHA-1: 79f1b825cab68d190c0698f638bef6a0cf1249e0 SHA-256: b6798f9dab133fc8992f77dd93cfac1998d262eaeeb0dcf6de26be011206a4e7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=irrational+and+rational+numbers+worksheet+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and appears to be a lure for a worksheet. The presence of multiple external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination. 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=irrational+and+rational+numbers+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.staccounting.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740285/663109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stoneridgevetservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776150/5541689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0440/6237/6101/files/30931881429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1503/7343/files/1092952182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5737/files/jaferamakopotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5039/2984/files/camisa_negra_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/togapinanoxunadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/16235068569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9867/6131/files/gujotop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6413/9669/files/wudusimudigovoburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6735/9900/files/tafutiginubepitane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9177/2063/files/bakabilivifaxanojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9946/2558/files/36641858581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3883/3816/files/duvoxisaropamogupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1187/3688/files/english_grammar_worksheet_for_class_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0709/0581/files/amazing_grace_my_chains_are_gone_d.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

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C65 1964 bytes
SHA-256: 06d927bb2b6daf891478ab4cab90709232d593f7c9b2cc46f53d704c02e6609f
font_01_sfnt_off000065b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B3 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 02b8db35f0d0b062dceea0d5763cc41cf21d4f7e182c73943720fe7237686848
font_02_sfnt_off0000784c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x784C 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 513469c8d94c0b587cb0dc842b4f2bb8eb09fd6d7e9da48c8ae46fa21fcfee45
font_03_sfnt_off00009b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B1E 16144 bytes
SHA-256: f7282090e270060608fdc575ded0b184a97243f724fc845514d2e81390c10c7f