Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 173f9a6f0c3cb705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 13:41:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f4e4f688b3c2d90009d494e1a30c02fe SHA-1: ab1af8263c7c86eb30d81556be1177cbb03f06ad SHA-256: 173f9a6f0c3cb7055573088429b865f03ced51bca37805ada0512548055b9bd0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'adobe pdf pro trial' and URLs that appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to lure victims. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=adobe+pdf+pro+trial In PDF document text
    • http://files.essentoilcoverup.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383753/6108a3972d07bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.geekygiftbaskets.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740525/refezu-fojizudi-wodujejag-lugugerubateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thekindesthing.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383493/kojofotufavagat.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/1/0432/3724/5086/files/gupaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7278/2489/files/fezejexunobotolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9047/files/41245369217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3708/8154/files/wow_classic_robe_of_winter_night.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3642/5883/files/dibixisipidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1918/1978/files/68463229597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3009/3728/files/nugevogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/64188791337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41557636134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3319/0823/files/24210229563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1525/5710/files/eichmann_in_jerusalem_free_download.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004d15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D15 30516 bytes
SHA-256: 74e325cdc849740ba8db162662155cac5ca56dcdf2478bcc408f9c0d9ee02ee5
font_01_sfnt_off0000a8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8AA 4668 bytes
SHA-256: b88c84dd97480e965931b6e3fe2139e44438e3cbf4baaf32038f7f920fb80c87
font_02_sfnt_off0000b88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB88E 9928 bytes
SHA-256: db39362897d600ff7a85a267fcc6794badb1489e2c908ba6959e5779dca8002c
font_03_sfnt_off0000dac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC2 16488 bytes
SHA-256: a24b379294965881213f6bc3e9db9f5314a2d8a06b10cd027b2e5f3c9ddd95e2
font_04_sfnt_off0000f150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF150 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378