Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a059eada8b57fa77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 08:30:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97a48c4679d7f32434ae8d7ca3ea8bea SHA-1: dd2f8150467af370cb6f4a663ded547fecb98c65 SHA-256: a059eada8b57fa77f60e9d5b8cbfc40f93282d373b6596bdea6b54b4fc197e7d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=phenolic+compounds+in+food+pdf, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the topic 'phenolic compounds in food pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious link farm. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=phenolic+compounds+in+food+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://netudepa.mrsperkinsclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776106/rexewijige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jillianchristoff.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710694/wuronemewava_xejuwefutidora_votudi_zekosowubufeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mirrormymind.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452935/be94157b5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favevaro.mobileboutiqueadriannemerkling.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/kukefetakirun-kitemuju-pagewu-rotavomoxigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.barbershopsingers.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775903/jifafun-xogaf.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/1/0433/5294/8901/files/bpmn_2._0_tutorial_franais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7259/4844/files/davixoligiwonosenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3947/2288/files/biology_11_textbook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2076/3804/files/lesatajesurijoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6905/4886/files/94351044712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/67247333165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5059/6512/files/26405194252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2664/8985/files/lowes_mccomb_ms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7268/files/79761291833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5443/8302/files/fuvaxivimozodurapubapikaz.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_off0000c7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A2 5092 bytes
SHA-256: bdf552d8ed5a94ef09b167f4a5dd9ba18cae715c7101fe4304cd8dac066f795d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CB 10424 bytes
SHA-256: b1dc73bbd42cb053af43bbb6afe6044e789668fa72cee8a1d56dc8a8547cd2c1