Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91498265f13262c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2020-07-29 22:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97deb2e7810ce7ca853360db17a9d173 SHA-1: 42e5a0543dc067b457029209c881e55b5ac3c0ba SHA-256: 91498265f13262c8c161021696637d205bd4da9598c1ed647dd38563c4c3d3bb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=article+grammar+examples+pdf'. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded malicious URL is sufficient to classify 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=article+grammar+examples+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.gamingcomputersstoreunit.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163980/e9388b1dfc7e1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brandonmoorecomposition.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438766/muxigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newra.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/jixube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carinandbenblazer.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683000/masejolonijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ncwnavhda.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407695/tapixewupa.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/1/0429/9010/8833/files/rosijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3468/files/faleroforag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9471/2228/files/23385926204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3237/1622/files/gebazevobewatafebuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6542/5570/files/gutegukugasapapatujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8573/files/torunapiviragatexuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6717/1223/files/58906404188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9218/1153/files/gonodiwubibijebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9846/4661/files/sisomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4258/5241/files/92777595672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3510/6200/files/26808155547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9377/7827/files/nojalixemujo.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8D 5104 bytes
SHA-256: e81da31906be60e6f3fa075f2ae622e59be5bb8b08b2b2740885c85c0513bcfc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE4 5816 bytes
SHA-256: a1f42ce3b9488acbc0d2c3dc441fd5530bd8993e679683c3dd1d3db8a659a049
font_02_sfnt_off0000feda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDA 19600 bytes
SHA-256: 6ee03fb2dd54d5326506785bceabe45f6a8041609dacaf7b74c42637e2bd36a1
font_03_sfnt_off000139c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139C9 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 2f8ab46ae156e49ecd92ae4ac05a69e98e96121ec6e81a6ecdc4060d20b3396e