Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 437bc0deec297f68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 47b61e22eb8ba2affc7693e69ed07675 SHA-1: c561d0cf67608d5537999c0a01ed1b0ff2537609 SHA-256: 437bc0deec297f68f8e0a3c70ef0885cb6b1aca9ed4ca01405d27ec21083bb8e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm and a malicious redirector link, indicating a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking through. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' further suggests the document's content is designed to prompt the user to install something, likely leading to malware or credential theft. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL: https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=alter+ego+b1+plus+pdf+gratis.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=alter+ego+b1+plus+pdf+gratis In PDF document text
    • http://jafewuzeg.ingridblacypto.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637316/08c6ce7cff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.markchristophergarrett.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637291/762a93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ansuschoolofsound.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/b0906070fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leicesterhotshots.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384573/nojududu_woxipeli_nalavifat_bogakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabimili.transitionintowellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/6d77783de.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/1/0430/8362/8708/files/3360044535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2451/5229/files/niribevewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8488/2844/files/difaxilezidaxulunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5578/2819/files/situkopaxikel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9671/7977/files/20593749249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6382/8895/files/jonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1548/8163/files/avesta_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/4917/7508/files/99482730703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/41257072308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5253/8787/files/zujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8761/8463/files/new_apostolic_church_doctrine.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_off0000439b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x439B 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 34b5fb6cae6ca379841f8760ca67d452d6f0a0fada67788f3a566c4ef8b54bb6
font_01_sfnt_off000055fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55FC 8940 bytes
SHA-256: d51c36afb13ae9faaa965911ab77b33edb4afa6a9ded7117c108d3a093d79601