Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eac1daeacfd5db35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 05:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 143b5b89a74e60ac117978e1e448d52b SHA-1: 9f034888d559161933891360700ff350457e3c98 SHA-256: eac1daeacfd5db3502817b3db0894b2f6c745dc2ce58be2518ddfdd99f1a18f7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs. One prominent link, presented as a "math aids division worksheets answer key", redirects to a malicious URL (https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=math+aids+division+worksheets+answer+key). This suggests a social engineering lure designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=math+aids+division+worksheets+answer+key In PDF document text
    • http://files.onepurelove.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680808/kamutabi-gewarosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hoxieonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856133/2144257.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/1/0429/9731/7785/files/repetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1659/3312/files/70531346030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6534/files/matrix_hair_color_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0234/7168/files/rixufidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1615/1455/files/78429729095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9934/9407/files/weiss_passacaglia_guitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/98973723668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3461/5706/files/terafixelumowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2960/files/watch_american_pie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4542/9160/files/11633691256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9807/1450/files/18988190534.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_off00005356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5356 5204 bytes
SHA-256: 807f50466036dcf0246458729df02aed9b3bf95b04792206cafbe6c7e5438a84
font_01_sfnt_off0000651f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x651F 9580 bytes
SHA-256: 0161146c3dd6f8458f897f2581bed7731a82d3f2dfa1edcc3f3a940da8c8a0ef