Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7396fa42d6b18e2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-07-30 23:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8bbe607aaca0e508c4616397d34816a2 SHA-1: 239ffbe012fb9546bfd16258d6907b615658fcb6 SHA-256: 7396fa42d6b18e2c3c9f2fef208dc21b3eab3bfd1663c7b99e2761dffed3dfac
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 hosted on domains associated with SEO link farms and redirectors. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=architecting+software+intensive+systems+pdf, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to direct users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=architecting+software+intensive+systems+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.southerncoloradohrc.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302749/wejiwe_tadaruv_wavowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mccallumjones.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871633/wonojupi_fanezeg_tepizopim_ninogofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hollybeckley.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453998/9261414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pamelapalmadesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813427/bosagosokulexutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meganboonedoula.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/saburufixi.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/1/0436/3422/9398/files/pusidizisumeduvolirimuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7153/6285/files/12501074494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0327/3628/files/49181182771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6436/0100/files/lowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7141/5196/files/54637640892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3330/4993/files/49988139330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1625/files/puguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2258/9853/files/58352330370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7098/0247/files/84401666589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3804/0487/files/bugenuvegune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0029/9683/files/14606408358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8897/5774/files/65647450525.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_off000066cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66CC 5568 bytes
SHA-256: b11be5158e24963603a7b404583e7dd8a7ac7f1cfda042ede6802e092df428f2
font_01_sfnt_off000079a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A4 10904 bytes
SHA-256: ea04bec4260aae18103b445114f13db0bc6f72d67a4884dea774c4433c156a3d

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