Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 073e2fc66dd3459a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 05:39:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 83973a08b87b34bfd8a1042d6480c8d1 SHA-1: fe2a6d248d861c5b07e18745b3aae963541963ce SHA-256: 073e2fc66dd3459afc02ae1371589ef545943200a513cb25393f1a477a8c40b5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links designed to appear as free downloads, but they redirect to a malicious URL. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=strategic+change+management+process+pdf, which is associated with a link farm and SEO abuse. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this document is part of a phishing or scam campaign.

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=strategic+change+management+process+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.onesaint.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856212/xuwefexol_pumuluwizuw_kidawuxegoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dancerscornerlr.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969800/2d05f76ffaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.testimoniesofwitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164573/6453491.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/1/0431/0443/6390/files/49623144299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5138/files/24428767272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0029/8648/files/jamesatuzimetetudanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1975/3879/files/human_anatomy_drawing_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3358/2998/files/kojasedupukupegujadari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/4687840389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8991/2218/files/78822286897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4782/8133/files/kekosipewubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3009/3728/files/xonasizimaxuxifodalewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/29399017549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2289/8584/files/bulnesia_sarmientoi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5676/6869/files/i_know_that_girl.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_off00006a4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A4A 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 1e99de6b6c98a350ef3a2eb9aec4c7600b77130fc02fab17daab8406a58f7ddf
font_01_sfnt_off00007d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D51 14516 bytes
SHA-256: 2d1ec27be1cdc8692a5052450de527352db7720788e2b023c2bd2d16f0aba882