Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78bb56b272c77153…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 16:23:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f9d8ce780b2b9890d6f6b29289770ca0 SHA-1: fb37f972d952a213fc182ee0ad80a54d97210148 SHA-256: 78bb56b272c771537ec49cccaca0fccd6bac1e74f38befcca5f9032a14185b60
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=tamil+movies+2017++tamilrockers+hd`, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a link farm designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=tamil+movies+2017++tamilrockers+hd In PDF document text
    • http://files.luftgear.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775917/boxupuzibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumibezo.nejcrwc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739235/kamikifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoxowev.greenfamilydentistry.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/093901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gemmamcneill.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/relenavurasivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.airacademywrestling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380427/bce20.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/1/0437/3820/2273/files/59601307141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2563/6248/files/tizilijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/3291/1512/files/adaalat_episode_388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0486/2374/files/75260197730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2596/4957/files/rafiroroteviziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0124/9955/files/vigojimunubojavosamege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5411/1656/files/zubijufozekew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8561/8583/files/nuvarofefejowenapijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5246/4293/files/28215850201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9526/1348/files/97577403241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8634/8450/files/allegra_120_mg_bula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1197/3026/files/53398987263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/38760480538.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000050aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50AA 5660 bytes
SHA-256: a7bc720ef21a4d2325d7177a61f624cb44fae297d4153d3e2d1dd6aa8f2e19e7
font_01_sfnt_off000063d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63D6 13724 bytes
SHA-256: 1bec1aa59ce8e73385d82b04ad9f04cff1e230f88228ae80d46084f844d5189b
font_02_sfnt_off00008f61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F61 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 7348a63ea9206f1dd9d85ac5b8e77a4d6d13d552d707fc8209e912c0db264539