Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc24d9038269745a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:32:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 58d32040389f0b7eaccfc938af0e3f3e SHA-1: f91e68fa3f6bd520250fb90e3b0348ff0e3dc53b SHA-256: bc24d9038269745a208b7f56efa579c7ee3fab0b3b0eb56c858967058b9cad61
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a genetics textbook, which is then followed by the malicious URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking the link, leading them to a compromised or malicious site.

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=livro+genetica+medica+thompson+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hoopcubed.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775825/veviriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heritageelementarypta.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969018/mezowoviwebigu-buzajudubisis-jedikunata-mepisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.poundridgegardenclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381614/7451319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thenatureofthecosmos.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814460/tabavabarejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stonypointfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607565/8932355.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/1/0433/4013/6601/files/bloodborne_chalice_dungeon_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3512/2081/files/19179099867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6353/2951/files/vixufixudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1297/9869/files/16510325367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0017/4504/files/12725260017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zosakasebiribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0625/2440/files/the_nexus_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0988/4838/files/2550794251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0953/2316/files/81799077248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7026/6273/files/levefotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0147/9321/files/lezelogadosikeviwefifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9969/9866/files/jesatekepobiderijovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9573/6988/files/dofojujosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8494/8380/files/5810724703.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018a8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A8F 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 4db4c754b8aa1b1e9fe6ebc2d2313fa93a2fb8e59618f6c7abba98b5c33a52a6
font_01_sfnt_off00019d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D4D 14500 bytes
SHA-256: 507740213d5f5d7101a8b5bc06f96010a4cedd4a20342e1b1c285125a86036c6