Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed960ffff2f7632c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 03:06:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8c877a3e52f1b832f608828daa2b64df SHA-1: 802f496669ab2dee25f4d3f114698cef9f10dbb5 SHA-256: ed960ffff2f7632cd408035e217dcacabc346697b076a78ae397503d5e56e608
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to 'Benny Hinn prayer warriors pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=benny+hinn+prayer+warriors+pdf, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The presence of multiple links and the identified malicious redirector strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=benny+hinn+prayer+warriors+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rimalim.samahdi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874524/mozuvuzojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lionscb.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607053/f541943264c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapezi.furgetusnotrescue.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738714/a42855738715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0508/6616/files/completing_the_square_and_quadratic_formula_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3259/2040/files/rizegonemofasabolulomada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/setixinojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0333/0208/files/junepovadefeguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2908/6876/files/49299487806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2485/0842/files/chacha_chaudhary_raka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2204/9695/files/rivupazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kupesuditijativerawepafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4030/9402/files/4352949954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3271/4139/files/42939875031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3618/0634/files/80491927165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8516/6760/files/zakoxitorufibezixej.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6412 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 9b429c8a45ca4d698ec38a91f228dba263b373aedde1649c80b5742ea95510f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000753a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x753A 10264 bytes
SHA-256: f3ef3712e03c55554ad086237fe9d2436dc921618269057f950c3db35d7e2cd8
font_02_sfnt_off00009813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9813 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e