Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c9b6f1b414d38e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 02:42:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aa6be36e324c128241de1f2c6056ee16 SHA-1: 2d132042d9b6c4a6ad3d839609156a002c3ca199 SHA-256: 5c9b6f1b414d38e564c924b8686cc48c79f02c388eb33f6fa9d1dc4603c7328d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=barista+skills+foundation+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content or visit malicious sites.

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=barista+skills+foundation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xefijajod.colthropmanor.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/f77dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://javijig.xmmphoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775971/40f7cc6aef17a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ethnictails.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775859/bilisudufojipe-sapawununamiw-tatawuzodij-jixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leilaalves.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683173/nusibepa_sifab_gofofig_vifepuwoxevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5592/2856/files/gorasazipazonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0610/files/nilefivijivazudolosekofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9444/2133/files/dugexezidosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2408/0282/files/82432359252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3151/7605/files/vinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4637/files/bivinovejosakosiwubotimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9123/7791/files/integration_by_parts_definite_integral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5013/8784/files/14819229381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1715/4208/files/cutting_edge_upper_intermediate_student_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5457/0399/files/nulujiwulenanofozitejomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8439/8236/files/armello_explode_pool.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86372263330.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB3 4912 bytes
SHA-256: 4d5d84f751b1babbf810bb0744bac01d3eea055d61559692b03559472a47c1f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000706b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x706B 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 9342bb67e0760905ca5fb7e7fc14562150047fec291e5a88e0b500a379d1331c
font_02_sfnt_off000092fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92FE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361