Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74ec443e1eb709bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5c43b8a885136a85147d98c2d280c138 SHA-1: 1276ac7a10c73a7e7fa9adc199b631ceadabf6d4 SHA-256: 74ec443e1eb709bdb67e8bd768f9aa345f0eb49c56c37f074386912397e27ebb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bsc+biotechnology+books+for+free+in+pdf'. This URL is presented as a free book download, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=bsc+biotechnology+books+for+free+in+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.futurebanktoday.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740281/2664038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.inspirenetworks.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452922/4513656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.adamdoesdisney.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453917/ruxadaridofofogakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6874/4087/files/wilodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2823/3883/files/hamlin_wv_topix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4646/8769/files/install_npm_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1816/6167/files/wufegex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6227/1898/files/gewuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4622/4551/files/wuxakozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9292/5852/files/60162034201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8933/4177/files/bsc_banking_awareness_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8951/files/90060349769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3407/5558/files/fubifugaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4992/files/72991996872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/siyavula_physical_science_grade_11_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6640/6550/files/9448245028.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7775 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 0cbdbdccb53df735c12f3379b0a7b128aa73bf6a4fad8af16a48dffbad3835b9
font_01_sfnt_off00008a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A64 3204 bytes
SHA-256: 35c0a746fcdf55e64f2ba55209f6a139fa5d4ea47dce36c63c78d1e6d66b29b6
font_02_sfnt_off00009755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9755 2576 bytes
SHA-256: 7c39ce28624f4542f75b1ffc8145173145833d4531dc284b7a223e4ff974262f
font_03_sfnt_off0000a24b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA24B 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 691108aeccfb5c212e0ff0941c2e59e9b233f5348e7d90d794a2158ebca4f19d
font_04_sfnt_off0000c722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC722 16260 bytes
SHA-256: bcccb725c9682f8e52dc21f4dbed28cfeb791f33e6a2205b1cf2355c7010a67b