Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6977a6055d99bca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6e17af61f17d8d724ba4490716f3897c SHA-1: e851f4caadacc340d542d0fadaf3b026ecd4871c SHA-256: b6977a6055d99bca331f90cb10fe84f1fcf30612b53a6e894b310dbf67d2d47a
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document is designed as a lure, using the guise of 'Android studio installation steps' to trick users into clicking a malicious link. This link, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=android+studio+installation+steps+pdf, redirects to a PDF link farm hosted on Shopify, which contains numerous links to other PDFs. The document also contains a heuristic firing for requesting recovery secrets, indicating a potential credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=android+studio+installation+steps+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.aimbehavioralhealth.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695932/534df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tchaikovskiana.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874566/fodatoziwonunitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stlukepec.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381540/2ffee46a2267fca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6997/1363/files/infectious_bronchitis_in_poultry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8570/9987/files/rodaxekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0876/1764/files/naworosoxenitukunaxagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4309/3660/files/double_entry_accounting_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3672/0798/files/7886488675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5142/files/33155126840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7286/3899/files/52429132473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5511/1589/files/19276905720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2720/2205/files/bunezikupolevafivepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3222/files/xorasunomanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2292/6492/files/lineare_gleichungen_lsen_bungen.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EDF 4908 bytes
SHA-256: eae81d4302014fdd684a622b24e53ac4e36d877a2d42586e7afdb9d0d4499310
font_01_sfnt_off00008f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F96 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 3c7d596848e66640cc501822ea12ef70bd7cd7ff7078ebb3a46a07e8e2f31bbb
font_02_sfnt_off0000b2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c