Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d81dcc9b9ab1d4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f8720cf66a2d3a20a6cf122ddb675cc5 SHA-1: bc3f1b8f0dd0b575e39d79c7874d5f29cab7524c SHA-256: 5d81dcc9b9ab1d4f680ef6a9405fc3f3a966f019a0808ac3b29c95833755d8a2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to its use of a redirector link, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=nitrogen+cycle+pdf+file`, which is associated with malicious activity. The document also contains a large number of embedded links to other PDFs, suggesting an SEO manipulation tactic to drive traffic to the malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=nitrogen+cycle+pdf+file In PDF document text
    • http://files.freshexpressionsllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606366/dbd823c445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iancleggwalsh.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384468/nibexiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wheelmanspokane.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874015/7641838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.konishi-kg.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380591/jezaxikasawib.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/1/0431/0820/4704/files/7859321899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4186/6403/files/osrs_black_demon_slayer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1481/5901/files/10016614213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7689/3334/files/gw2_tailoring_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5982/2243/files/tofuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5733/0853/files/13240989009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0505/1029/files/19685749436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1315/8565/files/26533391401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/nj_practice_driving_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6248/5407/files/bepenezawazumedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3290/3829/files/10572955485.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F8 4796 bytes
SHA-256: 933392aac630ab5aec4aed135fbc1bd3628422e0a44384834e7fd373198db26d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF363 10456 bytes
SHA-256: f9931758005af0c97db7c1ca02d5f3d6aafe5efd493eeb3373a6cf3ee6254615
font_02_sfnt_off00011758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11758 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 2d958bd008b8db5b33092f112e99c856adbcc0a100e950d14ff814b784be6357
font_03_sfnt_off00012bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BEC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3