Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 872a9ec4d706943c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 14:09:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5755470d9d0808c7274a47621bfba768 SHA-1: 91724c16a6701080544163c338c716df795353cc SHA-256: 872a9ec4d706943cfbdb0759da463b60910b25af4a9eb2b650b929ceddfb109e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ashraful+hidaya+part+2'. This redirector is part of an SEO link farm designed to phish users under the guise of free downloads. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=ashraful+hidaya+part+2 In PDF document text
    • http://files.pastor-dobi.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969052/e0a8dae049d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.5degreespsychotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454221/8b14fd1e06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lurexotek.powysdragons.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070588/d367351c3c7574.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/1/0439/4277/2891/files/22388218380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7442/8827/files/gojadanojomawokosupexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7945/7173/files/9505222173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8455/files/army_of_two_xbox_360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7765/4942/files/dupibafopobijosuforuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4315/1272/files/97577891358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3826/0899/files/nojanutogimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5187/4466/files/kotusetemomaxatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7707/4077/files/types_of_industrial_boilers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9055/6568/files/71373483125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5357/2515/files/fundamentals_of_differential_calculus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0299/4586/files/yt_www_watchqueue_loadthumbnails.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5358/0437/files/29712345567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8466/0380/files/candela_italy_application_form.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_off0000686b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x686B 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 288cf1721550c8860fd321738abf8e2e858a0c34129e32d782b71616845d9748
font_01_sfnt_off00007aa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AA0 10024 bytes
SHA-256: a2e65e67f7b61522de0fc1085dcf143287276607223a74e640597a771e981b9e
font_02_sfnt_off00009d12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D12 16952 bytes
SHA-256: a9f399e294a79e74dc4239344c45ec32fd8bb7b71716ce8552b9356c04a52e7c