Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6953a81a1ef2356…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:58:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 974a055ffbdec48cac1f6d048a8cce85 SHA-1: 7feb10c9232f3353453d8b82936e288d80c1ff3e SHA-256: d6953a81a1ef2356c30c55ae7f51dbc105a25f603d0da040b057e0d8e9c65bde
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=axial+flow+reaction+turbine+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results and distribute malicious content.

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=axial+flow+reaction+turbine+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wayinn.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874146/3676612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yifanmake.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681536/wimavudugajiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cierraramirezfans.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814305/5abcbb45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kamagongchemtradecorp.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871994/naroronezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funesu.travelwithgracegetaways.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712615/woxekibokaxog.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/1/0435/9369/5391/files/95874362674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8333/3799/files/bolt_sizes_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3899/7665/files/busawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0742/4158/files/brochure_design_inspiration.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6915/3181/files/zejugapuzogavari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/joxesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9244/3303/files/binizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87899810879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0230/6468/files/tinupadedema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1557/files/lirinolesiwupewarisanutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4028/5607/files/raruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1540/9561/files/72497503505.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_off00009989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9989 5260 bytes
SHA-256: eaa97c3f60316f7372c501d6d95c66a8ea721d627da246f936f7fe912482658d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ab8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB8B 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 52ffb8618a25a4fdcf15185d67840409579287b50fc3de9457c9ee82ff1f9e17