Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e14ff8dcc806c1a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 01:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: abadcfb0487ca72335b05f2f4e3943f8 SHA-1: 88df5df4ea8dcb39b733cce927b668cad9e91a73 SHA-256: e14ff8dcc806c1a1508e17e69352187f63b018ef0e213a2f81a45da9f27c8e4b
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=argumentative+writing+middle+school+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick the user into clicking it. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=argumentative+writing+middle+school+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.smile-movement.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437233/3713535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.foodallergyconnections.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454216/9149812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.en.revesalpins.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813409/sivekakodegoraxujok.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/1/0429/1674/1286/files/nuvajozurelogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2296/7207/files/78173116619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7192/1571/files/achy_breaky_heart_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/89828184471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1989/8777/files/download_manycam_old_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8336/5528/files/sisamefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6591/5032/files/forficula_auricularia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1270/1854/files/vixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6987/files/wedibibotawigivemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6076/3555/files/jiwimuzuguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9746/3714/files/52255065649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6459/8434/files/propaganda_techniques_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8171/8173/files/wufenowuziwabegono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2775/1321/files/tupaxosavizedusikaxaxitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6758/0317/files/mn_new_hire_reporting.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_off00006a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A10 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 05a9ede534aa30dede3e2d3d58c515712a6c3ee1ce14f7c10a1b01b18fbc9342
font_01_sfnt_off00007d6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D6B 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 0dac6c09f384db2833e1416ad46c6af189aa371e211a2c4e91eb1cc221064ad3