Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fde271538702cbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:27:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c01381def908bbfe0eb8f7ecefb06430 SHA-1: d057a2baaf495f2dc102357526cefc697a4519cd SHA-256: 5fde271538702cbe2ab170e4f126c09bcac55a5cdafd9eba88d22e0317c67015
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The primary redirector URL identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=carbon+nanotubes+preparation+and+properties+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity as legitimate content. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious redirection scheme.

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=carbon+nanotubes+preparation+and+properties+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sitenug.jacobsladderbrookside.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/6164692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.katephelps.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/nesodivuvatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.olivia-a-ramos.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856531/wexuvejelexife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giluzipix.accelerateddentalacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453416/desakoxanoxojoregev.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/1/0434/6000/1957/files/wendy_s_training_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7171/5993/files/fanuc_arc_mate_120ic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4026/0775/files/akbar_birbal_ki_kahani_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8570/8953/files/76916271440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3256/4132/files/cereal_production_in_sri_lanka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0309/files/jaxofowuboso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3013/3406/files/fukegamusugano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8063/6821/files/marlin_39a_golden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8043/3302/files/rimapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3765/5193/files/supuvurejugedaxoganevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4922/2298/files/50780880893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6622/0956/files/xuvevexunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5679/9647/files/zekijeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9732/5732/files/tibedaguzazefudiwupokiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6901/4165/files/due_to_owing_to_because_of_exercises.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017cf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17CF5 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 5917bb1af97fb015c8aa2dbdf1e414e9bb6a27f8fc89df50aad1db2ea112326f
font_01_sfnt_off00018e24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E24 11888 bytes
SHA-256: 41d08a277df01f660e4b06d4278658b60f293dfdbfbe7a226c5705235b44539b
font_02_sfnt_off0001b617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B617 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 1d6ad76e3b95a5aa8a98ca802689fe1bc1a3a78d2e4908637de8e66538acfd30