Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1389bb8109fc13b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: befba4ad6c7fe54f232e3d2a1cfb737e SHA-1: 1f31fa1351236f4f7ef324ef96bee65b25771fcd SHA-256: 1389bb8109fc13b4c3dc0e01cfb66d9bb20bb6b219402bb31aa65bd7a5b1d65b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many of which are SEO-optimized, indicates a link farm or phishing lure.

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=alter+ego+plus+a2+corriges+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.morganmrich.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740723/6954852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.motivationalshityall.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813757/6360893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gwrraohioc3.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712315/3224990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.basslessons.tv/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437307/08055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.manchestertrees.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695780/3346818.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/1/0433/3764/6245/files/doziximariluxerokuvinesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7945/1289/files/acoso_escolar_peru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0205/1235/files/4546827350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8673/files/binezokanubizawizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/death_note_episodes_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6186/0757/files/excursions_in_modern_mathematics_8th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4878/files/53514727925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0238/7867/files/34199706405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8366/1461/files/zukimebuwiratujuruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7963/8942/files/91766227896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9853/6091/files/kefoxikuzivoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7070/8129/files/canterville_ghost_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2213/9041/files/56150881616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3053/6614/files/49025188897.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_off00017e3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E3E 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 7d31fb64a08fcbb916d232c851f22bf1be38fc99b0ff2698777edae9a51bba35
font_01_sfnt_off000190d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x190D8 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 067118c7267a21126fd47d353b88298fe6f2345710a85729f08ef3a4d7ca4887
font_02_sfnt_off0001b56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B56E 16220 bytes
SHA-256: cbdbfe760b4a5610a5c6cdae2de6bcd38aba6314ce4962aa9665e81d84448a33