Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 065977deacbaa0ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 10:01:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 12e6d6a0e6c854d3f2be43e17e57d77b SHA-1: e2a00aa2e7215fb800a853583c3423c8464f16f6 SHA-256: 065977deacbaa0ed957b831656b6cf874e5151b02ec8c7ae591a920db1532ca7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that also appears in the heuristics, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of many links to external PDFs, some hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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=syllable+divide+rules+worksheets In PDF document text
    • http://bakaj.jennyharrison-author.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814172/c007c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugog.culinaryrogue.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453501/2998717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patubutiw.rachaelradtkepiano.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871745/domevewefexazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ndschoolfortheblindfoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398336/rixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekuk.southerncommunitystudy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739206/xatebesopa-mokosipireje-pilemom-junerosenof.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/1/0437/0428/7383/files/46713531507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/8486/7736/files/whatsapp_status_video_telugu_songs_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7048/7712/files/pin_retained_amalgam_restoration.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3912/files/nelutedulegola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1268/5977/files/tinigedojuxigebubawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5612/files/90978683865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/pastor_chris_oyakhilome_books_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4356/8278/files/larivonetaxikuvazanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2846/3271/files/cours_anglais_6me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2583/1835/files/bhagwan_ke_bhajan_kare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/59574640054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7367/3118/files/nejeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/womosoravitixugefiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8525/0216/files/43435008532.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_off000053b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53B4 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 2319fd7748b84173ea690636bb62c8008089803ef873d3553fed8c89bd4025d2
font_01_sfnt_off00006653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6653 10020 bytes
SHA-256: b57a2670f52280ea64d9cc79f4ceb97a6b998a1a816a821581980d1c108ea955