Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa69ec57d07a26e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 13:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 22d572cd6e4b22f9bfa65faec2894637 SHA-1: a245050fed09781fb702fdd28b5567f229fbb6d7 SHA-256: fa69ec57d07a26e782877090b4624322bc6196323759b807373ff7ac0b674e0e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive title and a call-to-action button, aiming to trick users into downloading content. It embeds numerous links, with one identified as a malicious redirector pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=new+cutting+edge+advanced+teacher+s+book+pdf+free+download'. This suggests a phishing or social engineering attack designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=new+cutting+edge+advanced+teacher+s+book+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://wirewi.charlesheinerfiction.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873822/dazivofulipodev_sudijekodusid_ramifubosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.risechildrenschoir.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/4900629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stpeterswhitstable.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874668/mobulotulugi-worirovewiko-gijazez-lokufitore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sultztonianinstitute.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681545/84396c518d27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.knockouthumor.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070246/71c8d42.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/1/0439/1757/4299/files/65529691721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5881/3336/files/boveneneduwodesuzuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5025/5014/files/photo_ki_file_kaise_banaye.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4539/4331/files/ampicilina_sodica_teuto_bula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2690/6264/files/6454518021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5583/1445/files/sejedevobaponereno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1307/8174/files/xoxufosemepegexifili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9403/2025/files/5011934370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4334/8892/files/sebitorabikoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81159011373.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_off00006206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6206 5744 bytes
SHA-256: 5cfaa02ca296add6bae06290695470752cc5f928037e2f61949c20e2f1bff6b1
font_01_sfnt_off000075ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75AC 13060 bytes
SHA-256: 704474607d42757ebf8c3d470453590af3180a27fd9c728c435d23524bc54733