Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9b06c392198811f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:23:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4eec62a8580cd35b873776d771608526 SHA-1: 367b979fcc594452e1ec89a310a4f0e02bc52635 SHA-256: b9b06c392198811fcc2d120bef52c19a4349dcecfb059f967ff0db842cbc561a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=alagappan+clinical+medicine+pdf+free'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9412/1379/files/serativozulizukobivop.pdf'. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports the malicious intent of directing users to external, potentially harmful content.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=alagappan+clinical+medicine+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.louisvillehealth.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070678/0086c0083644d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charmcitypetcrematory.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740352/jodilosorelew-tifirukulamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tegopem.grangerlandrfd.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741100/43a2b5bff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bejipa.bhseducationfoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606346/lowibofufoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doxadiw.jadiparadisefarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/bazuxedu-pujiloxokidabun-pixepesu.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/1/0435/9412/1379/files/serativozulizukobivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9807/0426/files/bio_data_form_for_job_application_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2794/6904/files/pafidikowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5324/3806/files/11885086339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0862/9659/files/35243759851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2275/1643/files/dusesonagujalepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5816/files/rikizijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2023/7475/files/48486043671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2494/0184/files/basic_digital_electronics_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3492/6495/files/87192691621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5581/6608/files/mowokumowuwuronifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5366/1851/files/falmouth_jamaica_private_tour_guides.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_off000060a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A4 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 4a3de5c4dd91e6b9b7c737d790804733dd3f85338a633f6b2293b449eda8cb52
font_01_sfnt_off00007281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7281 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 31a30ff9fd521cac25769b7674e5a58161ad6df829107f81035900b7505be0ec