Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12f578a50e961307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 21:48:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2344fee74bb05dd98707971650666a77 SHA-1: e4da75071105989d58f99178026e182d72273e26 SHA-256: 12f578a50e961307de2ac4046640f3541ca42374bd683b4294c6bac4b062e2e8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure associated with SEO spam and phishing lures. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=conducting+choral+music+pdf', is designed to lead users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm heuristic further supports a malicious intent to distribute malicious content or phish users.

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=conducting+choral+music+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.gzpianoduo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454523/lososomokoworemobana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadom.mitchellgroupinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/dc18068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapavujot.grpwoodworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/pegexudij_vokewigifaba_bezagojilon_jokufede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lorimerconsulting.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453543/kuwesafixitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.makergirlz.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813841/2527826.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39738284996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4556/1254/files/41869298214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7650/files/96864690383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2821/6983/files/zipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8151/3625/files/84892386224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5822/files/16610358367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4950/8246/files/97291966754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3646/5559/files/95403426621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/21729930874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4062/8120/files/vofojetizoxudarawodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54903558396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6829/1232/files/28748121700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3556/5978/files/arap_bahar_sonras_trkiye_suriye_ilikileri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7514/1794/files/tofame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1526/6713/files/gegobal.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c670.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC670 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 16fbe7ae9f4ec6c2d545811a6fd3e8d3c673f07882ed8058668a84558a4d8152
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8DB 10444 bytes
SHA-256: b0ee152db52d70e451aa63b0a9773f5b37bb2eefdb5e065e939a1ba22734a48d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCC 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 2cfc97915d250804213c9b0e6ad261e0979cd38371fb36ec9174dea58a153a3e