Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26f95f73593cfa67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 12:56:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3de913c6fd928f54dd5a26120d80ae19 SHA-1: ce041b68e4c68651106067712900ad853d127972 SHA-256: 26f95f73593cfa67a296d8f88b10a2f24df29345daf4f25fe371ca0063595ce8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ecosystems+theory+in+social+work+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic suggests the document is part of a larger SEO manipulation scheme to distribute malicious links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL.

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=ecosystems+theory+in+social+work+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nemog.miltonfame.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437363/pubapesovo-zekusapexew-pezalezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newworldalpacatextiles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483603/cdfa3d799fcf3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tjoneseducator.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606890/8713539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duwuzeji.goldensamurai.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/zugefewuxaf-kewavi.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/1/0434/2172/8933/files/76047083577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3332/9817/files/97405497074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63537272249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5128/4642/files/90028979626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8201/5129/files/vodumijekedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6404/1373/files/boravujuxevepixosopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/agario_bot_scripts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/71299233386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4044/0471/files/mining_trainer_pandaria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9818/3582/files/41553515787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6004/files/52920422246.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000093e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93E9 5608 bytes
SHA-256: c0514a289be7ee98da5fca120d7c9721c46fa922feac28f31a81f7af1b06ddf9
font_01_sfnt_off0000a6f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6F1 9944 bytes
SHA-256: 1020a94202431d13e2db66b4fd75da725ecd18f080d20b0c6a2090fa57034e62

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