Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bb7ee42d891c0ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 10:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57ca23c7726ef212a5e405481ff391e0 SHA-1: 3dcc29e9f8b7678aef6e156d0011169c0a22f000 SHA-256: 4bb7ee42d891c0ac61f347b9ea4c61931439ed9ebf589fad2258a1ee922140d8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous URLs. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=afro+cirkus+song'. The document body also contains this URL and other embedded links, suggesting a primary goal of directing users to potentially harmful external sites. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDF links, while individually benign, contributes to the overall deceptive nature of the document.

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=afro+cirkus+song In PDF document text
    • http://files.munaturals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437676/jolase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.funnyfacespz.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/6050995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrshalford.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814680/lezuguje.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/1/0432/2243/3953/files/zixukopudinasulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/pemadunotusixaselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56802730071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4552/files/megomububoramiwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9117/3278/files/nadekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9869/4049/files/vavireseberidobipusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53567737566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1175/1579/files/zokedufolifujovorafodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4814/7867/files/gopimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6208/3232/files/98546779338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3477/9553/files/9840742677.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0000a151.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA151 22780 bytes
SHA-256: 405a3cf200a06cc0d4e16c3c46acfcd15989a1d1094906007f813ebf79348af5
font_00_sfnt_off00005a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A3C 3312 bytes
SHA-256: 19fe6d3511270ee3ff4fbce704f5f4a9fb9182a4344e37e40a38d55828b07e20
font_01_sfnt_off0000661d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x661D 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 98310f76079bc3da329224d7d5ebe7139ce2f0a7c9403311644328d24c3055ee
font_02_sfnt_off000076cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76CB 13348 bytes
SHA-256: b4c21f72cf7b300278ae765b4ed35240f4c6e4eb2a7d3d880d8efa0f2703396f