Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8f7760fae61674f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 904b81adeb0a0e79731ccfcc69bc0694 SHA-1: 219f3e90f82ed05c32f387c142a4cf76d6a0cf1f SHA-256: b8f7760fae61674fb4e56f875cb5c1d40ce9ebdcfc48d11e01f157a3b932db7f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=a+level+physics+practicals+pdf', is designed to lure users under the guise of educational content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links indicates a probable phishing or malware delivery 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.com/pify?keyword=a+level+physics+practicals+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lisoxax.missionadventuretours.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/figolotitaxob-wuvixug-makuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujugeg.laurabain.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/mawudakuwavadosuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.minsmins.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969656/3463403.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/1/0434/6304/9378/files/95552099176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7070/9142/files/how_to_get_youtube_url.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8395/4328/files/89558510681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8310/4409/files/selidimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/86114159166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5059/0627/files/tenubivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2669/3789/files/fabetule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/ritogugawuwoxeripexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7596/0985/files/1788835731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0358/4409/files/58446909949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5236/files/dituxupisodenuxarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1952/5531/files/dubujuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3111/7467/files/dyslexia_journal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2771/6520/files/49743961778.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F90 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 2615b72a39f99a7b5c7ce9b67fe61347ad30bb68129744064d74ee8788b0cad5
font_01_sfnt_off000091e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91E6 10420 bytes
SHA-256: b7a349c346c4ac3187331149f6ee783b7db5d63266258362c8bcc008811c1a53
font_02_sfnt_off0000b5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5BE 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 028dbaa76d48ae99b02248bacea50134e27ed131f5dd39e25ac401de8961e19b