Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 841726bc7adc4e7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 08:17:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3f1293ade398591db5325613fbbade51 SHA-1: 3d30094618d1fa3e05bbb809b8d0aeedcf752637 SHA-256: 841726bc7adc4e7f228759b2f9193935c99435bcdbd424ffec06f62278c2d097
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service that appears to be part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The primary redirector URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=arabesque+no+1+debussy+pdf, which likely serves as a lure for users searching for specific documents. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to host and distribute further payloads.

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=arabesque+no+1+debussy+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pegasuscreationscandlecandyshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/gapifegaketeduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrragersblog.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740249/9ad178faee0c841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xunevat.mcossfinishes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398091/7926965.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/1/0433/0926/9156/files/33188622870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0305/1175/files/android_studio_tutorial_tutorialspoint.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3428/0090/files/autocad_architecture_2020_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7432/1560/files/lipid_profile_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0079/1191/files/blender_2._79_shortcuts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7285/5967/files/13403192392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8870/6717/files/believer_alto_sax_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3981/7890/files/48695046611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3096/0536/files/zuxexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8924/8927/files/pafegijurenira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3637/6214/files/suzoxexuxinezafavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2524/4053/files/architecture_design_portfolio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6725/1617/files/tiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/9284441163.pdf?v=1594212706In 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_off000083b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83B2 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 12512b7496d6b9e496610d271776c31ad371664741ded6e50261c8f9792ce7f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000962c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x962C 11088 bytes
SHA-256: ccad7e0cf6e5a54c20e4d0af07e161f96f027f6abce909b23ab9d1b70acb0aac