Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7e931a050be0a44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-08-26 19:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c1966bd63ed46578f9442a1f8c778acc SHA-1: ec00d1b4d63974e147a763425a9e5d737ed30f4d SHA-256: a7e931a050be0a44858ab6c1a862f8f0cc0b52ee1666ab56cf1448319a62d866
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a malicious redirector link and a large number of external links, indicating a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=escuela+estructuralista+caracteristi. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and link farm suggest a phishing or content distribution scheme. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.link/pify?keyword=escuela+estructuralista+caracteristi In PDF document text
    • http://files.tokyogrillkenner.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437725/c821a67b32.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nizufape.janinemillerdelany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776445/xasefuwubuvamijini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.erinenberg.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398253/fe7c3ac1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kevindorst.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969980/6a3307351c683c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bradyvu.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070481/jivanutunugefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7939/1637/files/two_meteoroids_are_heading_for_earth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2502/2621/files/36243712855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0364/2007/files/rerefisuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2424/5155/files/comfort_zone_heaters_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7056/3239/files/99882935758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4505/2570/files/29221161814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9128/0277/files/geethanjali_video_songs_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/difurakumategorusebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7281/3211/files/differences_between_meiosis_and_mitosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1674/files/4092909479.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000826c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x826C 4416 bytes
SHA-256: ca28c6ea0f1a5a1db1f8a90eae7c2d61ebb4cbc2ca9cd826e5d23e6a2f6beafa
font_01_sfnt_off00009179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9179 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 76b95b4f82fe80a9f5ca41b75502048f2fa14d84b6fed6669f1c9c636065b38f
font_02_sfnt_off0000b669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB669 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176