Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a101e5dfd0fa44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 19:23:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8c7f374efb7ffc149a1bd5a812ecbd3f SHA-1: cdcf21f42f7e3550ed935638711a7e99d1d3a052 SHA-256: d7a101e5dfd0fa44de2f00acad21d5fab75b45b64693e0e4708e4f7d0972c1a6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=benefits+of+integrating+technology+in+the+classroom+pdf'. The document body, though partially corrupted, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL is likely intended to redirect the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=benefits+of+integrating+technology+in+the+classroom+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.drtaoka.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871984/sipamijefak-mumaxagiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.seespotgrooming.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607010/zumenotiviruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.g-icide.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070591/6edf909518bda51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vocabularyninja.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607866/44da3be056f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mariefulkersonmakeup.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814288/zujowawimiviro.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/1/0435/2914/2426/files/wufigurerepavatere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1030/8766/files/trumpet_sheet_music_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4230/8250/files/the_logic_book_bergmann.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0719/files/doviluxoduvugofula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7054/6335/files/mexuwavigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/82505274200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1865/7703/files/dowivunugoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1882/0511/files/gmat_og_2015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5168/7848/files/gojefetatopibetopitadavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5524/2655/files/2603978181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7221/5448/files/25004126867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0036/3169/files/centroid_formula_for_different_shapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5795/4467/files/24224471107.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_off00008dba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DBA 5720 bytes
SHA-256: e75ad614d6b2798f2616311ad4e9b2ae80236f8eb93906bc8151872a0d92b735
font_01_sfnt_off0000a116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA116 10224 bytes
SHA-256: c2247c64b8a6b024185dc6f0bb3ff93f61f6b1c8724b0d08f79739fd3c0ba2f7