Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 754216bbf56d2a61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:06:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 12cd2b0307f79e6ef9cde50f98349bd5 SHA-1: dc3afdbb6137ddf09065319d057075cacac3bd1f SHA-256: 754216bbf56d2a61a4b447648172a5fba0a54b238f078158f340b495abcfb3ea
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ayatoul+koursiyou+313+fois+pdf`. This redirector is likely used to funnel victims to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its malicious nature. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to increase visibility of the malicious content.

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=ayatoul+koursiyou+313+fois+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cyclekingston.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070845/ruzujurobu_wovibifoz_sokatobonufoj_zazofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tukatavientiane.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712558/4304847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.exhemplarylife.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/912cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innerdolphinawakening.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/kumuvefajolen.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/1/0429/2768/5798/files/67332051390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/33637078532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3215/8116/files/jomamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2118/6718/files/mathematical_physics_by_b._d_gupta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/zuxeraxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3464/files/94451986376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8911/4789/files/arduino_starter_kit_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8458/2813/files/strength_training_anatomy_workout_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/52666197050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2499/6773/files/surevibujaxolofabuwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/25390864210.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000d5a7.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xD5A7 29244 bytes
SHA-256: dcac1369df5dfa6a390267c2ed1eb93f34a92d25e2cff40d7cc3e9685d9e0a77
font_00_sfnt_off00009291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9291 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 05c261a5c6543e352a9358cf5ca4863a02bdb341a5205714b35fec57d62a5ac3
font_01_sfnt_off0000a516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA516 16340 bytes
SHA-256: cf6abbe387c24a3157582b9e0afaaaf642a2b530baaa3899516d33005fa9bda8