Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f4ce63901962939…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b95b97e4a35ebc389b8bd4ff17bb4a80 SHA-1: 345735ca07d49a71d0555b7b98039a839b9e57e6 SHA-256: 6f4ce639019629399d8dd0b62369bfba063c1ca5c93c80dabded0e2a07765e9e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirectors and algorithmically generated URLs, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bioethics+articles+pdf', is flagged as malicious. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the document's purpose is to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=bioethics+articles+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kabanhomes.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383607/sazukiduraza_mejuxivok_waferajebag_tokoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nefrologiedagen.nl/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070849/xigomusakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xupunibep.westspringfieldbouncehouserentals.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873851/kafadosavebixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xejajuwa.communitylearningprojectminnesota.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606255/katosotitebas-padoginaxa.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/1/0428/9291/8937/files/amplictil_4_gotas_bula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9930/6648/files/58231017228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5746/3971/files/murarakaxezogixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2442/4853/files/bupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4250/3832/files/16889396209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1809/9615/files/76290954801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5099/8679/files/pdf_to_word_converter_cracked_full_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7509/2132/files/authenticity_in_popular_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2175/4787/files/rososorowakimujujabelope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0195/3952/files/45559420769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1656/9500/files/69318582797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9661/2768/files/xatetelibewafezikawugadu.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_off00007626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7626 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 87fb54b9e4c67434a669caa119c0adc7633a77adfab76d72f111515733d248b8
font_01_sfnt_off00008819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8819 10772 bytes
SHA-256: def554da111be1caa27931541d61777b3a8d39928472eb24ed8dbbda7b22f299