Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 185b00642f1bb12e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.2 KB Created: 2020-11-13 23:52:04 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 0a78b0d608be1132fe9c25162ec7947e SHA-1: 5338befa18aff649838857b91b7e94cddfd6d04a SHA-256: 185b00642f1bb12e24db95880c868a79e0f61d4438ac7d75b0107a4380864573
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is designed for SEO link farming and phishing, using redirector links to lead users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URL and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic point to the primary attack vector of luring users to the `trafffe.ru` domain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffe.ru/aws?utm_term=the+way+you+are+bruno+mars PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366398/normal_5f991489a179a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379355/normal_5fa0765d390ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riragojefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/nudadusasebovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379485/normal_5fa43089582cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wunupalezozerud/home_alone_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392193/normal_5f976eae1ffcb.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8e8a9bec-f979-445e-8f5b-75aaf7cbc5d8/fichas_de_domino_para_imprimir_y_recortar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7e0747f-28c2-4390-863d-6e958b303b02/56432130297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c61384d-732b-4b67-9fd8-857497d17639/three_levels_of_a_product_by_using_the_hamarvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/908891e5-c355-4b56-8678-74865797bad3/best_feats_for_a_warlock_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff5cb776-b7a6-41f2-b783-21ee207b297a/energy_review_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/75213f59-47b3-4331-8cfd-65ec3f32c612/89584031226.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_off00016ac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AC8 6444 bytes
SHA-256: ab9e6802fb5430b80800e831b285c7a635bfc4fd0c06e1abfc00dc510813b7aa
font_01_sfnt_off000180be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x180BE 4928 bytes
SHA-256: d80e6495f6cdf9da019a28408904629cea59a8f91d393162f8bb083f5b228490
font_02_sfnt_off00019157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19157 13904 bytes
SHA-256: 3700a2cd672692f4f12d697e165ff830c7453ef1d65efca5329aa52baf49c491
font_03_sfnt_off0001bc06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC06 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 15a68420f1c377824b8c1fd571ac7c30556db1b4bc05006bf44ec3f6c6c83208
font_04_sfnt_off0001d0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D0ED 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361