Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 042500168a2b2892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.7 KB Created: 2020-07-20 19:38:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 46a2a32802481ecade528f008080a6e7 SHA-1: 8c8c1b76b5e93ceaab2b06a9b4dd7455cf256aa0 SHA-256: 042500168a2b2892228af412d666eaff0aefa3ffaea9fec9e7dfa8e2b7f79f70
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is flagged as malicious. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using the 'free book download' lure to entice clicks. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict, and the presence of embedded URLs confirms the intent to direct users to external 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.ru/pify?keyword=why+do+we+sleep+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.javiwan.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607054/8487423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.equityingenetics.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874265/tarise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arohabeautyhouse.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682610/purupigikavopeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cestagift.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163601/tezuxijolamokub_bozolugadajaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lakecookbehavioral.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739063/bafapixipemozej.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/1/0434/8156/3298/files/lawukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4089/0262/files/vonelesojepakujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7980/2782/files/3500482808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mozovubebu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/74969976498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurabekowiv.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jogise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamiwawafota.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/76944240698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relidenosumo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/14847579139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0138/files/99937589850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5258/1542/files/18149724571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7247/1718/files/guxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/welilavuruwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8987/9445/files/sezimakamiselivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/90167113235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4939/files/79844800132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3729/4754/files/mugemuwudarekagomadelire.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_off0000a0dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0DD 4788 bytes
SHA-256: 8d91b63444a87d7036200c9c21a1f4c881929f4e2f832f6e1787e691ab3ad331
font_01_sfnt_off0000b14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB14D 10544 bytes
SHA-256: e5339e430f4b163baff373ee725b83574e81e15e1c009e8607ac168f978c89e2