Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e336872997adfa1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 07:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 764577e74dc4bf53e89bfcf5c099bdd7 SHA-1: 568b5d32e197a6a90311815b11f96acb24013a53 SHA-256: e336872997adfa1c28bf2bc6a0e616a033b53b02aa3c674d33b4bff7154423f0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=calcium+phosphorus+metabolism+pdf'. This indicates an attempt to lure the user to a malicious site. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The embedded document body text, though heavily corrupted, contains the same malicious URL and a reference to a scientific topic, likely a lure.

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=calcium+phosphorus+metabolism+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.trevorbalthrop.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637224/5ce20027f3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sicilyreview.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406344/nadajemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pleasantunionfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776641/1143929.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/1/0432/4301/2256/files/makalah_tentang_bblr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0222/5059/files/96559379139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1235/6253/files/buponeduwutijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6112/2974/files/bsc_agri_merit_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3433/4616/files/ishihara_color_blindness_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/36999706177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2433/4498/files/dakaxowobapusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2499/7800/files/87530144481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0900/0103/files/ninuxanaxewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1197/9939/files/canara_bank_gold_loan_application_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2784/0669/files/fatazitomix.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66D7 5440 bytes
SHA-256: cf60f06a658d2379890a75195adc7fe80efc2d894644012b7643c9969d189d07
font_01_sfnt_off0000791a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x791A 14204 bytes
SHA-256: 574fc4933fee94247eeb8a5383af8b6461b183418c0a30ba676474289e8b8e7a

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