Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39fb819fe78a1508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 20:02:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a899db2dcfe33db8cd60ed25fc47b0bf SHA-1: 616b02cb533bf63955d3d468b4df353caa2ed593 SHA-256: 39fb819fe78a1508bca0da573ee6f050dbff93d909fcdcd2da9de4313b8e7c29
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=guide+to+networking+essentials+7th+edition'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1829/6228/files/wavazona.pdf'. The document body also contains text suggesting a lure related to a networking guide, and a medium heuristic indicates a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=guide+to+networking+essentials+7th+edition In PDF document text
    • http://files.1flyguru.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/vizavamuminin_kemasixi_meruwedivowiki_jitolevakizesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ahgu.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303035/6713405.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/1/0435/1829/6228/files/wavazona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1229/5589/files/40827871844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5690/6911/files/nikujavuduvuwiwemawofizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5181/7883/files/xuxojuramupagepezapemasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3953/8851/files/vanefejuforetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7385/7686/files/star_spangled_banner_lyrics_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7864/7957/files/vype_epen_3_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6976/files/vigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3133/0969/files/19720676873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7097/9238/files/16569986396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5109/8007/files/import_illustrator_layers_into_after_effects.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4527 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 02e893d063412a1f7d84ab354d06f37251bbee7459eb3d879cf0437db5f69a46
font_01_sfnt_off00005771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5771 10108 bytes
SHA-256: 505fb2b7a020c32ecc285cb6e62b8af9d9eae746899a2932c269c3c3e234c1a5