Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9772b1f6802541f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 13:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7b1095754f0e3088877765ee42173d6a SHA-1: cab5eb69f416fdf7470ac01d36737fdf1e9e455d SHA-256: a9772b1f6802541f8f194b30a3278f33165cb9617bc1789167d83ac69abb73b0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to external sites, with one prominent link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=jerarquia+de+operaciones+aritmeticas' and numerous other PDF links, suggesting a tactic to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm within the PDF structure.

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=jerarquia+de+operaciones+aritmeticas In PDF document text
    • http://files.avsone.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969472/bodurizoberanog-modomebik-difamajosenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zebeziba.prettylittlebath.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454106/zeritugorebiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minitike.cancercoloring.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683001/kajex_botulakosivola.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/1/0433/3685/9813/files/21126705344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2358/6712/files/android_smartphone_secret_codes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62654677968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5652/1631/files/30419374960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3167/4535/files/bedizalivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5175/3380/files/lucida_blackletter_font_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5064/6169/files/good_charlotte_good_morning_revival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8976/4245/files/bass_guitar_chords_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5661/0979/files/6443521645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4371/7274/files/bapisobozupigokiw.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_off00005f3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3E 5304 bytes
SHA-256: a62885b9fdf39c8436bcc76cf836b4ed9ca89db4385d1708b90c5c086fec5610
font_01_sfnt_off00007126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7126 14664 bytes
SHA-256: 27ceaef4956716aabc4a71890dddedf57872fbde45cf98d8d4ccfdfbae9ffff2
font_02_sfnt_off00009ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EE6 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 19cc87a61af1ffec9583344a7275f6d3812bd596e08e219237328c0503819c41