Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6deaa0fd96a6850…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 00:48:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9020cdeb73dcbbb7b457f587057bd82a SHA-1: bf9e68ba55c7a942b066091a72a2a17922e92b81 SHA-256: d6deaa0fd96a6850ae1850ddf1dc0b34a596026a38d3b6a315a199627d0fbe26
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=anthropological+foundation+of+physical+education+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, with the first URL being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3067/files/58482733653.pdf'. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to physical education and the wkhtmltopdf application, suggesting a lure document.

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=anthropological+foundation+of+physical+education+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.smallflute.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814030/vupepanodexivaz_xovutixos_xesozaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fomimuxif.rachelburn.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/9525183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.majormedicalproducts.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856995/wejifopaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hgcoffeeshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775712/85376d12599c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetise.sarexplorer.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/nubotewot_runomu_bizoxu_jonule.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/1/0431/6394/3067/files/58482733653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3978/5111/files/simizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0543/6326/files/jemajijofevepofunanegajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9915/1768/files/19655268340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0182/2875/files/telecharger_atlas_anatomie_humaine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0601/7186/files/xofonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2681/6932/files/29121673151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0909/7376/files/67860450978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5378/3957/files/wufimupuminogimafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5092/4182/files/bond_university_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7146/3831/files/93416195115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5252/9829/files/99156511142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1254/5950/files/meningoencephalitis_tuberculosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0610/files/niwozokogikaxukifakuto.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_off00007319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7319 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 1b445a38b4e8d4315df6bf8f8c4cf8e91932b5213b434c9c2e6e1cad94b00a6b
font_01_sfnt_off000085de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85DE 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 63f6048f6e480ef10f2cf39e497f2a9b1dd15351867e21e2ac18d139a6cfff0a