Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1718de9db6d5a2a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 01:57:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0a7956f5ac9429567e0292983444773d SHA-1: 967a8d0ffabd19b1ea712f8b5662a9ef1aef4d08 SHA-256: 1718de9db6d5a2a3dfb6490c4c3ad572225143fdf247aa0826e7f9ad5f5f2f74
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=6th%20grade%20grammar%20quiz%20pdf. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt using a lure of educational content.

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/wb?keyword=6th%20grade%20grammar%20quiz%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.womansclubofpowhatan.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637652/wozovususonolof_sununemep_kojufikunolaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.englishwithtuttle.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740458/7448167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fivixe.monsieurcoulibaly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453323/rovodilolilo_jipibefusuja_dogolesorinukow_gagisatozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jimmyjazmes.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437418/jajuk_tudepi_zivijidesuz_gezipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alphaprep.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776728/pubuvuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5543/0302/files/20416175561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7270/1095/files/area_and_perimeter_formulas_for_all_shapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4062/8120/files/86625744171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2981/5711/files/74413984626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/37247792337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0653/3527/files/64151847272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9245/1235/files/tafenizalorubonopebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5082/6919/files/latewipokuvilezivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6116/4697/files/bupijomutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5982/0182/files/bosch_glm_30_professional_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5099/8679/files/vacunas_polisacridos.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AD8 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6f1934ee9a4d8e959aeb10ce1031cfe7da9d08b96aa01d4e8b1705e07baa34
font_01_sfnt_off00005c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C55 9972 bytes
SHA-256: 0c4fbcbd06454d2b4fd92adb3e7f7a16f6b25cdb93ee48008d65f9c0cdba02f9
font_02_sfnt_off00007e25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E25 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3