Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff16a337b747e8e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 18:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3eb1872732b012d34238195c76d93c42 SHA-1: 88756cf363cef3283c4e9d727c0004d481f27c64 SHA-256: ff16a337b747e8e4de0d5893d40ffe1b3fa94314933e83d7b6f857eca8a84e7c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bsc+computer+science+syllabus+du+pdf' is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a lure for phishing or redirection. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites.

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=bsc+computer+science+syllabus+du+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kickapoovolleyball.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681698/4718526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.billings-equestrian.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741476/fipadavunoguguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiporiki.thursdayisthenewfriday.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453674/544d46af5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dlsu-aki.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438460/puzuv-kedabibuf-rasogaratum-xeneju.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66048758492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9128/7452/files/rutadosaxudejuzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1279/2221/files/crossy_road_hacks_no_survey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9520/3745/files/8342072095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9462/files/malunuseruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5035/2296/files/gulekamoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1310/2998/files/xidufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2080/4518/files/459600417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8334/2748/files/92315108847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9011/5748/files/how_to_setup_a_discord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5778/9605/files/26956070706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5763/5735/files/51911383976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6472/1562/files/fm_21_76_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/96940615337.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_off00007223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7223 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 7692aa416dc058a37d7dbf769cae5319ec39ce440a6ac59bc9876ede32a9957c
font_01_sfnt_off00008515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8515 15908 bytes
SHA-256: 39ddef06c9bc28a738c4466dcd3ce92ddfdb38b51944311557406f1372d0f0ce