Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c03194b91c1079e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 10:27:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f7e255e88434cee68f1b0182d2d86d3d SHA-1: 6e207a2d31778b595ae55e362a3a4ad13ef107a7 SHA-256: c03194b91c1079e1e24d9dfc168c30e0c233b8546dc3932c1a8ba049730aa20f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=cauchy%20integral%20formula%20examples%20pdf'. Additionally, it features a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an SEO poisoning or link farm tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and heuristics point to a lure designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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/wb?keyword=cauchy%20integral%20formula%20examples%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sailingcruisingscotland.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740589/zipakebarujukebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saraayllon.eu/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682905/6205747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sambesca.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968920/4453791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fergusonchurch.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695194/4c6a7.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/1/0432/4114/4483/files/que_son_los_almidones_modificados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5915/7921/files/areopagitica_john_milton_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5570/files/tomuvuvibekefavaruni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0553/4620/files/cambridge_english_empower_b2_teacher_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0602/4101/files/harry_potter_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4424/1562/files/jupenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3158/5180/files/dajurutogazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3407/5558/files/tupakidinivakubititon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8129/3221/files/zufigosewalorazideku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6921/0773/files/41924044932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0043/4586/files/achilles_tendon_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5193/3078/files/23848376381.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009e6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E6D 5644 bytes
SHA-256: 759d52cdd1df8f83467a39cbdf1bf2b34037fae9364a46bd3ad4a4d4e6e2c64b
font_01_sfnt_off0000b17e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB17E 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 2f10749fa36725930550161c6e475177e056d28239345127277e4ae338d27d38
font_02_sfnt_off0000e81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81B 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 1412cb0262bba334174b8b34bcec94847a52cda8145c8b3da7407301ba3b3a4a