Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9b156a1d79c72e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6e557c1aa10f6b1421af669de3021985 SHA-1: 1917843da08c528dfbbac3752127764c4586fc36 SHA-256: a9b156a1d79c72e73c1a2beb1c7b49a13ef20e3517c74e003da53af053f288b8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=agenda+21+pdf+free+download'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Agenda 21 pdf free download', suggesting a lure to entice users to click on the malicious links. 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=agenda+21+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.atjsbc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164239/8f941fb98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eringreenauthor.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776096/c26e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meredithroadrep.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740586/foxunasibeja_soxoj.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/1/0431/0899/1125/files/79263305881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1148/0472/files/pulaxebuwulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7249/files/82111763341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27347714529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4788/2650/files/beginners_guide_to_photography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0436/9816/files/xixibukasewaseruxowiwagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7097/9237/files/42608212879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8085/1364/files/45278210562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9112/2584/files/luzakovewavofifarexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6667/7665/files/4969725061.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000073c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73C7 5296 bytes
SHA-256: be272d4d23880071a7c5f82edf59a9d807dcfffeb2b659f30fd9e57fe49bae63
font_01_sfnt_off000085ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85EF 2576 bytes
SHA-256: 297f52f4236f09ba58e85c0251406db64a4d3221d73012e717b108c12409d6fb
font_02_sfnt_off00008fae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FAE 10276 bytes
SHA-256: d2b470db9e8947619f4182c5d0c8837bc0ded141b3631adff675ac51ad491216
font_03_sfnt_off0000b2ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EF 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 68360d215686b7ffd363eeb0253592cf4566abf286d77cfdfbfe23f63f7602e1