Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4e71cd736837c70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 17:58:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 500e18c37bd1cf38ffd1d6c1257b9e7f SHA-1: adc5918db14c8935abac1fc16e81a3830e09e445 SHA-256: a4e71cd736837c707f3e8e5a630e9aaa4604a75db320aaac552ec94d8d19b6e0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a redirector, both disguised as relevant content. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=l1+b+visa+interview+questions+and+answers', is designed to lure victims into clicking through to potentially harmful sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to interview questions and the malicious URL, reinforcing the social engineering aspect.

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=l1+b+visa+interview+questions+and+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.shoptrueblessings.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406684/guvilatakeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xobepovi.brightonholidayhouses.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163864/soxuxepatibovul-zetilibawuwapim-niburago.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/1/0433/9941/3925/files/how_to_highlight_duplicates_in_google_spreadsheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/18983443830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8872/3616/files/86484189705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9354/7424/files/juvewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0459/1254/files/jnv_admission_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2732/5343/files/lds_gospel_doctrine_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7708/0990/files/apc_5kva_ups_specifications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7365/9290/files/46246672951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6335/3244/files/rinifiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1470/1735/files/41929008675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6797/4556/files/jalenaxevugugito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3534/files/exception_handling_in_java_with_example_program.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5961/8716/files/psychology_bangla.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_off00005f8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F8F 5196 bytes
SHA-256: a0c4ec1a21ddf5b272928e3fc9bc3e9edae6e55cf9272632991846bd79ebb8e5
font_01_sfnt_off00007157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7157 9972 bytes
SHA-256: f0f0d8cfdeb97588b37e93b7949ea29fc9e5dbe61a3edeb3d2af7ab43218fb06

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