Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7d296f4952880b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 04:59:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 98713a6b5b179c78f7d318dd6c339386 SHA-1: ff98bf96bff2bf87cb6b2488cc853ce79238776a SHA-256: d7d296f4952880b28d70ba7efda637937c7456233b093bcc54c380a335dc239b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to a redirector service. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=fundraising+thermometer+template+free', is a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to fundraising and the embedded URL. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

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=fundraising+thermometer+template+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.julianneelaineclayton.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406086/1206466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dugegov.beavercreekbaptistchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/xuwuredefozozovi.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/1/0432/6211/6008/files/12410885911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1803/1002/files/bluestacks_for_linux_ubuntu_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/0825/8211/files/cancer_de_pulmon_diagnostico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5194/0000/files/lafujurirukoxiguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3817/8470/files/babalu_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0182/1859/files/9317651874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4721/4486/files/34181197597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4903/2607/files/prise_en_charge_d_une_menace_d_accouchement_prmatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dipipopiluniwewikojidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6807/0815/files/kavufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3906/4225/files/52038790538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4976/3487/files/zutekizino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2180/1371/files/corel_draw_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1668/2652/files/oster_bread_maker_recipes.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_off00008406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8406 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 08e4bc47e1071b08dda392367f2146fb556e9e44e4f731f3d46c2446b296c6b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000963e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x963E 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 930497f868fe0a50704a0771154f4880ed5d370aa40986b1c414693010133e7d