Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0166e8edb01a6b1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-07-30 00:41:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7241b8e693d543902be626c036682cb2 SHA-1: cdfdb26e47f4624f9cde55a5c1c87f12cfb07134 SHA-256: 0166e8edb01a6b1c7a652c3476d53147e43b0c47ab4555158821b08957210951
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'chromatography principles and instrumentation pdf', likely a pretext for a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation.

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.ru/wb?keyword=chromatography%20principles%20and%20instrumentation%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.barrons-conferences.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409170/3066792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meyrickestates.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776388/xojoti_runeriwodowesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reikifortheplanet.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302815/5645773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saugusxc.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695543/goloxiv-mired-zakobegoselaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0430/1553/6793/files/59559930803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4576/3744/files/1169250602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kuvesagapixunijibofalase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5747/0872/files/zewufedeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9386/1279/files/51237303533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0007/0307/files/86919084748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jedajuzosefowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8778/1276/files/keletijirepebikisitivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0453/4692/files/malofesuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0392/7973/files/14014032717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/10379968915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5236/files/rotetaxinitazagelibese.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_off000071db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DB 1696 bytes
SHA-256: 9a98723dae936e7c7c8d502cfbcf27bf9f93cff28ba6a06675a6a95244fbc4de
font_01_sfnt_off00007a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A05 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd5b756488457a4dcf45ca93be6ac56c7be12a7247b50b2305688d9996c3fc7
font_02_sfnt_off00008cda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CDA 10028 bytes
SHA-256: d4769a4b96416f02fafa670c95d88bad5bb605ad07593d0ea613e08f963cac98