Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84cc58fc23826ffe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 609c05b6ebe7daffdc8470f6ddba57d0 SHA-1: f9bd626acb04c94de41aaec4faafb36cd93e4ff7 SHA-256: 84cc58fc23826ffebbe00bb4cb53ef568fbee2e3289479383771a73637f70d40
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, specifically pointing to `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=frame+of+reference+physics+pdf`. The ML classifier strongly supports maliciousness. Although no scripts were extracted, the document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

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=frame+of+reference+physics+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lplimages.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452903/tekibuxezavo-fowudo-domejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mainecela.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776002/rajuxelowolimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heartpieces.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379749/3776242.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/1/0434/1995/9463/files/67831124839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0432/9127/files/british_english_grammar_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1573/2376/files/tujikebikenazijutevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1368/4891/files/fovebogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4995/1138/files/xonofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/44491289505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7108/5475/files/60795585038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8062/9913/files/fundamentals_of_electrical_engineering_rizzoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/pajifagobudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/carte_du_monde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/boundaries_in_marriage_participant_s_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4754/2175/files/calculus_stewart_7th_edition_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1791/7848/files/rational_functions_worksheet.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c72a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC72A 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 0897228c769a3809e3a1e478446d0f8ea716cfe28124ff7b444dd242f17685cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD973 11032 bytes
SHA-256: cc242302bfee80884b752a6884b383a66744ef5c858af52878eb430ec9a639de
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6F 16060 bytes
SHA-256: ae97ebdbf5cb6679ee3ae7f6f8963da9ec2437ada1f672a33085bc8cbe806833