Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f0ca5c6d0accbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 23:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 78fc7d58cd99b584d4887197ecf40295 SHA-1: e1f68b98c032ca36a7b961d9dbfd0114906099ec SHA-256: 78f0ca5c6d0accbc743f1849015f153a14c1d83c9bea4473a0c42d94053e2614
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=asuran+movie+bgm+tone'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious destination. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the primary malicious intent. 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=asuran+movie+bgm+tone In PDF document text
    • http://files.containerofdreams.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738806/nasenapiwapoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morningsidechildrenscentre.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/5034740.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/1/0436/1188/1634/files/impact_of_celebrity_endorsement_on_consumer_buying_behaviour_questionnaire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3504/1702/files/ap_calculus_derivatives_test_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8187/5112/files/weight_training_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9635/8565/files/nokoguwemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/7435/6135/files/39420105253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4876/2529/files/associer_plusieurs_fichiers_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/firorake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4055/2598/files/lanelabuxevewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6394/files/business_plan_sample_for_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32343356061.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5874 6744 bytes
SHA-256: b29f9350a720d2da9dc50567d08c4a82684db1fcb28a47e3a5788345b392d808
font_01_sfnt_off00006959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6959 5160 bytes
SHA-256: ce4a6e2406ae948b607185e510329857af87ab0b034999e596f47b0be67aec63
font_02_sfnt_off00007acf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ACF 13060 bytes
SHA-256: 40259808b449d493f9f4cc6040d5fe0025f6db724965c9f0626945750436e1fe
font_03_sfnt_off00009b22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B22 12784 bytes
SHA-256: b78c76f480cb5d7bee7a23852c0b7ebdfe7b1e073d187133a930f032795fe467