Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9422f2979b19907e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 19:28:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bdd62c8abebecffa17f0a105090c496b SHA-1: 546012c7f52a6e5b17205f1f33ebe75b7ee5dc1d SHA-256: 9422f2979b19907e64f644e123c50b8840b170d80dbe09b5c4fb7d41b15c2c0c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=heartbeat+bts+flute+sheet+music', which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content through a deceptive link farm.

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=heartbeat+bts+flute+sheet+music In PDF document text
    • http://kogesi.musicinthenineties.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636644/3504210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basar.dectfl.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/9267262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerotiko.bhstomp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/49eb003085c10.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/1/0437/1814/8261/files/lupabuguzaxagekovetosevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8268/4318/files/gomujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1223/5174/files/sogozakefoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6345/1549/files/delolari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6605/5063/files/24391788252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4488/7966/files/cambridge_primary_curriculum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5606/2876/files/59754266173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1618/3205/files/tisepelidejabudixepadato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2281/0268/files/zidetizunutubasiwexoveteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2079/5556/files/24593384966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0602/5128/files/bodepowipinitelasu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4603 3748 bytes
SHA-256: 45e0f8828c64272d499c18f9e2112311b015622047a2d401efb6c4b36f1d194a
font_01_sfnt_off00005362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5362 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 53fad2ee2fc3192974ae15c85108ab235e52bd369702336357efda584e013df6
font_02_sfnt_off000064f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64F6 13708 bytes
SHA-256: 47766049bf17831d356415f869105f2357973684a48d1035b5ebaa8eb2808f56
font_03_sfnt_off00009073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9073 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 705cd36d9c2227ee052114be9604a9bf84eb8c2476a52f9da8c5a7759dbb33cb