Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e59dbbaf12ba7af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b3e401810b7a9fbeca89572c72250522 SHA-1: 4ddc002eaf7e275b4dc4ee71c6e68d24d3ab4b39 SHA-256: 7e59dbbaf12ba7afe986d43c21baf8fa4a3065fbd46166babda180abfa1f7ec5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is flagged as malicious. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the attack pattern.

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=bipartisan+campaign+reform+act+2002 In PDF document text
    • http://files.scperformingartsboosters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/2399992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.9thwave.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378936/84970cbe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7023/4527/files/carex_antibacterial_hand_wash_data_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78539107281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1998/5319/files/jujowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8517/1607/files/16160024950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3542/5944/files/best_offline_dictionary_app_for_android_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0938/4345/files/92784536260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1542/files/11289829199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8060/6111/files/rarukeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6153/3085/files/62660517637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8034/1917/files/briggs_and_stratton_repair_manual_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3476/2654/files/africa_map_political.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0342/9535/files/xapimobizakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43377474007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0916/0862/files/5167440914.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6634 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 197d4dbb6ff653d935ba85405593bbf720d2cd74e308688ef63fdcf57b6ddb51
font_01_sfnt_off00007879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7879 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 5a45fa2d4f9a31ca7e02948b0a22ed4464043d5accf9ca530fb793d630980629
font_02_sfnt_off00009b38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B38 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e