Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7409dd5ee5e042c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 15:59:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d494555e2facc13eb1a8d9a027a554e9 SHA-1: 6209781690959483f683b2b6c1192ed62a791e28 SHA-256: b7409dd5ee5e042c97bab4ea6b48395ade094d2b325b08226948549b5d248d6e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=fma+brotherhood+opening. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same malicious URL and several Shopify URLs.

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=fma+brotherhood+opening In PDF document text
    • http://files.firstchristianvinton.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740997/kanifapix_limolekuma_bitupupopiw_wavotoraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.graciejiujitsurocks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131414743/5771398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thelafs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383763/neravos.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/1/0433/1238/2117/files/51760096914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0500/8293/files/mavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5817/5893/files/bafatumevefizevavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kefemomorevogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0132/3421/files/putimebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8106/2813/files/31535507022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3301/6982/files/24389367423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57896919986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8472/4889/files/lukapubitogesowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4742/0066/files/35590546968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51686393220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6620/4066/files/raxuwekiz.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77AE 8968 bytes
SHA-256: 2f8251d0ead2e245e94f66f5a4fd5cf5179317916f3bf8c2880a16c79daeb2c1
font_01_sfnt_off000095e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95E2 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 29107b9e18a041294d1c61f893b6fbb39826456dac050ac7e0800f2a16c7fe51
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6DD 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 2a51dd787552c0ffa2404509c2222dfe2a1532c7aa08226750cdbe467b9af6bd
font_03_sfnt_off0000c96b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC96B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361