Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37b0b5ddab10a796…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 209f84dfe25d1abdeedbad6fb719ad33 SHA-1: f16ac3ab2b95604ceeb89faeda851c51d5b22489 SHA-256: 37b0b5ddab10a796f860cfc229da5d3d59196561e84e829316bb31a3728240db
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=list+of+alloys+and+their+composition+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking it. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the target 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=list+of+alloys+and+their+composition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.fansofdeschutes.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740617/abe316e6bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.euroatlantic-group.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858791/c1acd83b270080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waroku.aurorachang.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/naxatukozem_xovubotuxepar_duxugoru_gurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.g99photography.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408017/pilofojuv_nolem_xopipovusun_linakiraf.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/1/0435/5699/5233/files/43595216646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0660/7012/files/babutomuwijopimigubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3056/1436/files/xofijijomowuwujanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/79498129199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8759/2608/files/biblioteca_de_alejandria_libros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6893/2767/files/56493571544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4764/9429/files/8393756285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7600/9632/files/tigijefebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8541/1990/files/apiculture_pour_tous.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0646/6975/files/aspirantszone_current_affairs_weekly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7664/0156/files/lenanixosafigijuvapo.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_off0000862a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x862A 5436 bytes
SHA-256: b057e5dec90ad6442dc292156147aee49b1b74ddd8aa3a20e09e03c64200f82c
font_01_sfnt_off0000988b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x988B 11012 bytes
SHA-256: a6b45b87ae20f1f5105ec061eb8ef6b4a8d34895fd1754d0d763df90fd80d8bc

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