Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b43b457e7806ede0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 00:09:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7755ab4eb84ca0815f568efd911cc4f8 SHA-1: 30c81f46944a03e36d049cbef5f6d7ac24f98ffa SHA-256: b43b457e7806ede00dbafebe657e8434dd440f953f43d1c5e25a6ef3d86e7a90
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=resumen+de+la+ratonera+rincon+del+vago, which likely serves as a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the malicious URL and benign-looking PDF filenames hosted on Shopify, suggesting a deceptive tactic.

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=resumen+de+la+ratonera+rincon+del+vago In PDF document text
    • http://ripupodo.joellemeristal.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/zorivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritaxuxat.bobwatkinsrealty.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/bobuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cslconsultingllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070196/ziraxoverewu_bejebokerofuta_gesovidusokusab_xejosipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iscebs-richmond.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453250/kutejilepuju_zubalimuxugexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mdfsuccess.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409526/visunobomokonano.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/1/0432/5425/1670/files/tutevujamibijimujutuvipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2596/4949/files/lima_barreto_biografia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3657/1808/files/usgs_7._5_minute_topo_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6368/0932/files/74871302748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7671/3637/files/wajufejuxotovuzela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9961/9492/files/jurovarubebubuwivefuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3127/2346/files/tubabamadewiteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0691/0887/files/71817431974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49839171509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7686/1606/files/fopigiwamotosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/master_promissory_note.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_off0000733e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x733E 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 2440ddf873f1425da92616c1a8be9f30a45ae71ece26127fa0b734de2346b3a0
font_01_sfnt_off000084df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84DF 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 3218d3fc67708f732b703d51acd182c9373b2e3259be05bd475349ebc86d46ff
font_02_sfnt_off0000a9bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9BB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c