Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9d8a6c20460c57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-07-19 22:41:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c193c3ab0b28dfd619c0384a4ceef223 SHA-1: 77a2282ba55e236976b8e2f303019d6e3c6d2bc9 SHA-256: 7a9d8a6c20460c5736bb23a46f84c37e3f98daa161c298d315764f2fa3c1a3ad
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is flagged as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics indicate a link farm designed to lure users to external PDF files, some of which are benign but others are hosted on unknown domains. The ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent, likely for SEO-based phishing or malware distribution.

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=consumption+function+macroeconomics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.badlandsgymnastics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739509/126676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.campbellscostarica.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408369/34009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bscyouth.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739119/minovelikosejo-juwirujegexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sultztonianinstitute.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874058/suzipunajifubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.margaretpolcawich.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382406/dadid_robasijamajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://resudixam.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/fapodusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegopomipa.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/88807089038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xovexin.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tixesutepagudolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zijolaraf.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/62608466150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanojebukeki525275366.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/51162845004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semukiko.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/jadakaluzafifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wogeberej.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/78346955327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofanadidam.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nomukumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tudenobinedu359522656.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/56581775496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5611/1520/files/77880210787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7108/6485/files/93532923565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/47184882359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jewaxepolirabosumasedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1804/4063/files/21471096668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/mutagumesepopejibilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5684/files/23948377056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kubogofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3529/5905/files/wixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9191/0038/files/32700244022.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_off00008646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8646 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 8eb9aa7f8d9df4bd174018e7f597e0a98d1e63d659ce85b57e1d0b7efc522b58
font_01_sfnt_off000097c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97C1 13224 bytes
SHA-256: ad8bbaf3cf7ac10f0f1e9ad68625b6c1d4b9d4227ebc4b9bfafae9ab1c52c233