Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ae1c4c7639915c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 14:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b074dd1aef0a18811672e64883c07ec6 SHA-1: 173ba4da45704dad96f686ba864db2486704c5e7 SHA-256: 9ae1c4c7639915c60b9d354aecbf994316747f54c418497bdcb8611f9bc8ff47
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=violet+butterfly+pictures+free. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links, suggesting a social engineering lure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=violet+butterfly+pictures+free In PDF document text
    • http://benadar.thelittlethingsilove.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740424/topivikisuzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panotaz.donwilsonodhiambo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/tiwudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.myconcordpharmacy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637806/dumimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dipconcaribbean.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164198/seloko-xolaxiba-zarujesizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.legacyhorselogging.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636990/rakofidi-tuxujojaxeki.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/1/0431/6862/8892/files/95431571642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2834/8060/files/77648213605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6857/0265/files/definition_of_crime_scene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/68223097820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7103/6835/files/bilivowakunukadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7924/files/kujitoguwasaxutoruganumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6145/0654/files/paper_chromatography_lab_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0524/5597/files/bratstvo_crnog_bodea_20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0592/6809/files/bakunajidakolizeridod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8022/9791/files/validity_in_research_methodology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3538/5243/files/beniduxina.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67BB 5008 bytes
SHA-256: fe8340cc53e2f1448af8fd39d7e527875f4431a90e4d3fb8c81c6673237eb41e
font_01_sfnt_off000078e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E1 9932 bytes
SHA-256: 6e67f0747175a32c0b5742f5dbdee5f4de88031dc81d5d55c6f1c475cdad1a7b

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