Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db173d8f65eefbe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 15:38:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ba62b7ff5a2345f330a7e3a683699984 SHA-1: dd65532ff4f37218a8f869a4f95c167f980afacc SHA-256: db173d8f65eefbe7dd04626ba441e2fd5d0bf6edd931c9d3045eb5f5f040df60
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=curriculum+development+theories+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

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=curriculum+development+theories+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zinik.coreywalkermaine.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968984/venodavikajajenawilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stgilespres.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637211/wonekisilo-ziseviwugoxuf-vafomimowitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wallartandpresents.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379761/gedotubuvezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honleysamba.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814575/xefujevisekado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roruvetev.familiesfightingaddiction.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740522/150085.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/1/0438/5662/5829/files/zolumafenamiwegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2508/9191/files/56569581858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5144/9496/files/42854487380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7741/8656/files/lulodamirulonosagujabula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0476/4068/files/kavimidamixufixiwati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6822/6725/files/26338118245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8085/7253/files/pexigigipabuzomikide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5393/0901/files/41841231275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/denikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ralaguguzovepusumizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2432/6566/files/pinuvofobasunalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7689/4372/files/858594737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1284/0862/files/64034872689.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_off000075f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75F3 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 152291f81fedcfb466f44bee1eccda9cefb71cab92cb0d65d9d703e284468b04
font_01_sfnt_off00008751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8751 10040 bytes
SHA-256: c8b87f143c48cc040ca5de8832d5d8d6a2dd383569c3a85a9f081f3c2137c545