Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a23f7cb4cbb98070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 02:55:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d3689c15b77a08b4e12eeff1a7f69a2 SHA-1: 99d45508e6c0b9ef670755adaff0a1d6ffb6bf3f SHA-256: a23f7cb4cbb98070678509a14a82c1712038d894305ae47f2ee4b07257919872
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pstet+2020+result+pdf'. This indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt, disguised as a 'Pstet 2020 result pdf'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious URL and the heuristic firings strongly suggest this is the primary attack vector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=pstet+2020+result+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dsmtoolworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070678/6e54ea9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.awanatuhealing.co.za/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379732/5644712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buildingbridgeswma.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071056/85a76c3dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talibeilm.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383373/9347279.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/1/0427/4615/1078/files/95217913817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8122/7672/files/53515276948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90554838216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3805/6354/files/10694717748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5463/6949/files/vasafagubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5905/2706/files/lebasofejagew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8611/0110/files/castrol_5w40_edge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3459/0888/files/zuvafisovagajukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3865/2069/files/wuwafeluvajajavozeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/xosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/saragelewalekawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/88479003304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5423/4785/files/42931423261.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_off00006fc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC1 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 23c1f2caefa8b9ea92bbd1f643ca407a70530adac5e6c10a98def81e43066618
font_01_sfnt_off00008133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8133 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 3c13f22e9b72fa38f9dfb70885f8cbb979b5eaa48620881aa4eb0cdb51664a5e
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4F3 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 5338b60dac2ddcc9fbf81734882903060897ff8c18563aad6864a581beec55c6