Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 603fd8b3c57ad4e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 138ea928ca762d4eb9ccca2869137d43 SHA-1: 2781a4abc672d11e4a7760e5c20844e0dc8f4825 SHA-256: 603fd8b3c57ad4e86a52f72399445362ed045426e13dbc8fb420733d38d75f35
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of an SEO link farm strategy, likely to disguise malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=eight+characteristics+of+research+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jspublishing.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302919/4266847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jemmaday.studio/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303351/nawibed_zuwunogobu_mujotexotaw_kanevuvatisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amsterdamclassictours.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163590/bepujevikiked-kinodel-wiwemasinisogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.discoverwarman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738657/e7ab7b7a0c0f8d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zodepuwir.aisigcsescience.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/zimerete.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/1/0431/8865/0142/files/20514877998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2126/3271/files/wibekawasozerojenijaguwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nitopufekuriwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3459/0888/files/tuxeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53059057271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0611/3430/files/pamebatuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/tikofikudakibamevakugimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6974/2999/files/siladiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0057/8723/files/mevefafinoxitevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97253363073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0586/9213/files/21472693355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9978/3319/files/85564304312.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000702a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x702A 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 447ec3110e8d40d17df4b14e884309c454ce6fcd399eaebb0add7015683bbf00
font_01_sfnt_off0000825b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x825B 9992 bytes
SHA-256: f2a5fff638044cf5d82c94a17c33a933a17effb06be1c78fb0e87131c2550916

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