Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65197bb34507cdf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-07-12 06:22:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5b3d9bacaccb05f1e21345328fbedc0a SHA-1: 8a4adc1ba659389c8e5c44ce38e8aab23530db98 SHA-256: 65197bb34507cdf3f7de55da10b362600671b7ae20b7c5c52ed4c73b5bdf046e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to WordPress PDF hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=sennheiser+tr120+manual', is flagged as malicious and used in an image lure, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and benign-looking PDF filenames, reinforcing the lure.

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=sennheiser+tr120+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.rebeccalynnphotography.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874518/4840188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cierrasedgeamstaffs.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303151/3d9adddcee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.processfc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738755/e6f223ed31e0c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://padozobesix.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gazipagixidusobanodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakovenorow.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ririsovepaxafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wufubupaku.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/wapixaravorarirezezibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuvamodut.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/89744482945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilunumaseg.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/lijafomutibolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dexubifomuti.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/janojuxowipadugutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datugonirir.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pugekisawedubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedetepu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nilizubagepexudonajepozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32177526878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/36350521750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/49470024852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1310/2998/files/vilomozikadapikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3963/8179/files/15162147697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35035436777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8095/8617/files/jowunogisotowezidixazaki.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000054b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54B8 5124 bytes
SHA-256: 805bf4d0f43ea5dbc3a547f1cbb95b283f9d4dc9b840bd8256b1601978f3242c
font_01_sfnt_off000065e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65E2 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 9c2fd52f8f63edce3ddfc6cc3a919b80472d3dab04858b05aea9310d5d03447b