Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7251c19ac169c29b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 04:47:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f301681d25fa214ae50a05cbeab218ce SHA-1: 1c16d4a9456da58635ed7d1cb3806231a41fda14 SHA-256: 7251c19ac169c29b9e1a6bfe9c9c5249f2c8be135893d872dadd6a8d7004406c
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links designed to create an SEO link farm, redirecting users through 'ttraff.ru' to potentially malicious content. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=mcquarrie+general+chemistry+solutions' is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a PHP webshell heuristic suggests the potential for further malicious activity if the redirector is successful.

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.
  • PHP webshell / backdoor source high WEBSHELL_PHP
    The file contains PHP server-side code with the signature of a webshell/backdoor (request input fed to a command/code-exec sink). A webshell takes attacker input from an HTTP request and runs commands/code on the server. Flagged as a malicious hacktool artifact even when carried inside a document or archive — the code does not execute from the carrier, but the file is a webshell.
  • 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=mcquarrie+general+chemistry+solutions In PDF document text
    • http://files.ginandtarnish.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606059/tirasono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.subnum.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/sudidojakadefi_zufuvok_sudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.forummigrationandpeace.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438228/1957058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annayatesk8.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453022/mezitojuwox.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jerozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3092/9827/files/29667215023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8315/9957/files/management_information_systems_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9262/1978/files/kanepisemozufofedewiputub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8582/4154/files/bipiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4275/9071/files/fadakukujitidafufulir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3092/1895/files/19761563056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3531/files/gadusino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3117/4039/files/embedded_on_http_docs._google._com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lavatorumagenikezelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0844/8920/files/rewuferojosuginiributezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4302/9143/files/how_to_keep_photoshop_cc_trial_forever.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_off0000828d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x828D 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1566c6bc1fef8e64c9ddeb057a4448bf42b6a72b6ad7d19f4c0dca15689be2
font_01_sfnt_off000094fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94FC 12000 bytes
SHA-256: 6893a8389476b6ed97c4eb5d62c010041060dd89eae17aba7310f31c8d170333