Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b26f57caf91aaea1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 16:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 879758a4decb80153f4c2d242646fa19 SHA-1: beb7aede019e8aa68e6db368c11e011d626556b1 SHA-256: b26f57caf91aaea1b831179ea9c4248cae6ccb565524ddc5c84c9c20b860e794
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dtcc+blockchain+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to obscure the true destination.

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=dtcc+blockchain+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xavudivi.nmdnyi.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740541/6700393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnandbeckyadoption.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776006/e42f456b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telodawo.welcometo6h.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/kezomoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.art2day.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740256/7629612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fontrix.comhttp://www.nhncorp.comIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1005/6615/files/bagutidukizuwomilagado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0321/3984/files/curriculum_vitae_formato_da_compilare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8158/0200/files/falekadubogegosezeten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8451/2418/files/woxuvikosuvurekejilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6125/6091/files/ratemobepivizixorarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/all_in_the_family_theme_song_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0047/1456/files/xilidefavexuxabotixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4346/2037/files/72649907616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4261/4945/files/chapter_10_capital_budgeting_techniques_solutions_gitman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/cholecystitis_management.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_off0000613b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613B 5172 bytes
SHA-256: e62447c99d360276c4907418932da0e40ec2b55c90ebba2a13436e245c988c60
font_01_sfnt_off000072c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72C8 10004 bytes
SHA-256: e2f2fcd185e1447dc8161a926454e86ef4bf23f5b9c24ccfa30343053fc5b4c7
font_02_sfnt_off000094f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94F8 2944 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6580eb7e18fde2b368b9fa166a7c4083fb741d140892367d10ed76c63f30df