Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a997216a74da0f4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-02 19:22:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 387815ae48a961951bcf43be6f43e713 SHA-1: 8c6579312ef980ec4654adde60aabc95f724ca6d SHA-256: a997216a74da0f4e7b4549bdaeb964341c73fbf15f8d9b8fdf9cc5fa1ca245c4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=small+business+management+17th+edition+pdf`. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=small+business+management+17th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.erikasteeves.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873804/8092784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.playtennismarin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739470/xurosuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.3angelscfs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695339/melumuvoz.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/1/0430/4066/9849/files/fekejodelitukogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9431/7981/files/43547363477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5321/files/92724470136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9671/7992/files/febarudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6946/4991/files/14482764184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8803/5486/files/wukojufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6609/6802/files/the_last_whole_earth_catalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7880/files/29243725939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1502/0448/files/vinazufosenoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7257/7946/files/monusobunafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2011/6387/files/xuxodilorozudegosarudopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6778/2821/files/58608656631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4295/4661/files/13576508367.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_off00007867.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7867 5736 bytes
SHA-256: f3b59c6acb79e156703f9ffd98c165104048b2868b473088a1cda4bca872895f
font_01_sfnt_off00008bc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BC4 9792 bytes
SHA-256: e9d97806de21daf55fa95a62f0345da884881e3e0e2cef76dc8b63f4fa43eeab

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