Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96e94702c9a77df7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 18:53:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b7830eeb658514f8b4a79e90ad2d8e32 SHA-1: 64867ab6fa9248b344900a31b1d27f80accb5d19 SHA-256: 96e94702c9a77df7d10c846273e61ccffbc2223657acf3b08c0c737078e8e532
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is disguised as a research paper. The document body also contains this URL. The PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic firing confirms the malicious nature of the link. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination.

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/wb?keyword=magnetocaloric%20energy%20conversion%20from%20theory%20to%20applications%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.burkebros-cheltenham.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/c1878a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mccormickqwik.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969452/7921003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firufiz.year8religionlynam.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776760/zutan_fakujokemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zewudiwo.roarsandwhispersphs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453005/6962362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.landsendguildofartists.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606803/nirimakojunuk.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/1/0434/0645/9029/files/morowarizuxoniwumemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/32261885826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5654/4409/files/camping_checklist_australia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5378/3957/files/33759439958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4321/6789/files/rowodiwifetaxijume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5900/9943/files/88266199628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1126/0062/files/zarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0905/6666/files/getodazusokuzeromiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4578/9600/files/miocardiopatia_dilatada_periparto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91337380597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1097/3083/files/branches_of_horticulture_and_its_definition.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_off000081ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81EC 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 50ffe1a3c9290ea156700e3b4cc0b08f01e2946c684582f0b259761f1bf9f50b
font_01_sfnt_off0000954e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x954E 10788 bytes
SHA-256: df272422ef778a2ed13ff578cd2c8f633b33931c2e271a3cc72717ee6deca3f2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ba1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA1E 16176 bytes
SHA-256: b746209829ab2c6483433553037e2806aa40e4dabe1943e391f02759c7fa582f