Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a3efc76af31fdcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 12:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57dbf4fda6f76a984f910f7ab4a1b446 SHA-1: 08b0ad0c55a98166136d247461544417b5fedcb0 SHA-256: 7a3efc76af31fdcdfe87c6c91cd958eadc5d6cff7302f9f892ab77a71e9a55a8
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirectors and potentially malicious content, disguised as a Dungeons & Dragons 5e races download. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dnd+5e+all+races, is flagged as malicious and used in an SEO lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=dnd+5e+all+races In PDF document text
    • http://files.northamericancatholicecumenicalchurch.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303269/7434817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.writerjessicaleigh.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873794/8e8f4688a4dcf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.grantrestrict.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815026/gozamasomidin-tokajefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.higherlevelevents.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302710/zomevekifike.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/1/0436/3495/0304/files/1029665433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8186/7176/files/mepawogikovenamufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4374/1083/files/90430967223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2707/0104/files/how_many_gb_is_ark_survival_evolved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6309/9040/files/lepajukalekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4413/3281/files/bavenejisifapotazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6649/8965/files/mamosanekimigojasotemavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0645/1094/files/72254258851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7676/4327/files/83741161466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/vebavibotokiwesafelugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7574/7484/files/4472852446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7459/2668/files/christmas_brain_teasers_riddles_pdf.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C85 5056 bytes
SHA-256: 9af3fdd0857e2ffb59dc0b5af2977395c4162057d5f345d968efa553bb8e0b20
font_01_sfnt_off00009dc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DC7 14800 bytes
SHA-256: b412ffc223d8e2f07a4d913775650f7259f25e8fe25ae78338988115e5a34313