Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f65af179d307483…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 14:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 75c042f34153d6302edce37944e6af1b SHA-1: 64de8f38cefe25dbfcb26616f86507e92fa43d1a SHA-256: 2f65af179d30748306c2bd4cfeb5b2425fa9bb7d07416fa4ab56564a010627d3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to 'Preposiciones en ingles español pdf' and wkhtmltopdf, indicating a potential lure for users searching for language learning materials. The presence of multiple embedded URLs, including one to a malicious redirector, strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious 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=preposiciones%20en%20ingles%20espa%C3%B1ol%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.th1rdspac3.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/0c1d01d60c4e8d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.randjcoachesltd.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381480/9059815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hometowncoffeeandtea.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857114/lepokudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sportsisland.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379014/7abca74a7db7d.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19441108854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/xenaferojozivupufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9712/1178/files/66558357900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6450/0122/files/50509415269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6081/3208/files/miwumavonurorusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5844/5979/files/mepufojekadufepulugevokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0700/7127/files/mitudifipapavefixonarogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zumimulapowekulusevenire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7091/4717/files/97723886585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9934/8389/files/medujikedapotoxexalotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5666/8565/files/tirisobexefisazitanasixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1288/0544/files/sajibilanexizu.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off00006ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AC6 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 048fb1891f432488516cd811e7b04d68e7d39e548ca3495625137f8fb0c23ff4
font_01_sfnt_off00007bab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BAB 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 9862db4146fc71716675d53adfb1cdcd8f1527cbeb96efe96a29692f3ded585e
font_02_sfnt_off00008d38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D38 13536 bytes
SHA-256: f67b5e4719cd6e24eb4a9cac5adb46631cfa0ade2d4abd569a660678070af52a