Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc7c394748620755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 02:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b1f5edc96f67928d28abd5ad7b593098 SHA-1: 060f280d4a291a36623b8a62166361debaa05588 SHA-256: cc7c394748620755728c2ad267525be23fbed2a18a0e7a7a929e1bd799dfb517
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=oxford+english+teaching+guide+class+7'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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=oxford+english+teaching+guide+class+7 In PDF document text
    • http://files.katherinegaulke.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776589/1369963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thaddeusproduction.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164174/luboli-sofezonututu-miwokotorepik-bigolakijejera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bradfordalliancechurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453021/011dbfe3a17e47d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginetitaz.culverleygreen.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607310/73cac9f51a.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/1/0428/5769/3347/files/27660577291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4620/5602/files/super_contra_cheat_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7751/0055/files/womelesofanenofotadum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3404/8669/files/xezolubejijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8769/7822/files/story_map_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5639/7464/files/xivabonoxoxabexaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9432/4888/files/dininetoterivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5670/1348/files/savetijatubizuperidevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9159/1321/files/chiaki_fan_club.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8199/0304/files/4135193074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4986/8712/files/34970847380.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_off00004c30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C30 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 6122a143bb390cd867ab1c97987b66fad1c3ab41b5ce3b0bd55a049374fcd280
font_01_sfnt_off00005e5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E5E 9764 bytes
SHA-256: 08034c68e61113b59b6f4c7aac735b9d5be467fadd0d5e2dfbb275721bf65880
font_02_sfnt_off00007fdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FDB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e