Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9da668c93541c387…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 08:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 26553d814b627924f83f4ac16e260676 SHA-1: d5df0c06d4cda9283457e246481310a589ca7c38 SHA-256: 9da668c93541c387a7574a3fdb26f6006d83e0dd608f30497cc88c546cc0324f
202 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 external PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=a+doll%2527+s+house+guide+book'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL and other PDF links, reinforcing the lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=a+doll%2527+s+house+guide+book In PDF document text
    • http://files.milev.hu/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406437/lixelekaves_nalimujejano_xuvofuk_poxogitikajifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.944fest.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871627/4444445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studentprivacy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776406/baxubikiv.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/1/0435/0597/5462/files/palerewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3797/2897/files/game_changers_book_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4015/3505/files/43713710697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0502/4168/files/anand_kumar_super_30_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9432/7961/files/ohio_general_warranty_deed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/66008535084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7577/1304/files/xozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0374/8247/files/beats_studio_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5907/5477/files/after_effects_keyboard_shortcuts_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8403/6761/files/26687210488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7691/8175/files/vapilidira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2020/5726/files/86700795772.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006be8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BE8 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 4f7e3da0cdf7342c86a17ffb16672355196a68b92babf844e22adf91a9bc67d0
font_01_sfnt_off00007cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CF7 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 202b1e3f07b278c2ec754c095220cf2d0e1918fa6b46ea9a0243bf46cf6705f7