Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7ef4b145440f91a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 06:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 54cc276a28a45f322ac3fc4e8ee99a64 SHA-1: 75e58c938abb252d424cff77f5f0e6263bb5297b SHA-256: d7ef4b145440f91aa2ac4082c936b383e4dcc6b8f6a31e3e976fee6c28822284
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=mahendra%20guru%202018%20video%20pdfs`. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document body also contains this URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further 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/wb?keyword=mahendra%20guru%202018%20video%20pdfs In PDF document text
    • http://files.fortheloveofallthingsitalian.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775751/liwake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avsyum.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398084/worezovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flyrgfa.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856725/lekoripewijikegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.digitall.photography/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969755/05a6a377e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0281/3849/files/3522868965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0904/7708/files/secretary_of_state_ct_concord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9691/4600/files/59568460248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1045/6726/files/25659541792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/ligumugazawebamupewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4364/2773/files/97247841775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/semigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9007/4005/files/convert_string_to_lowercase_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9671/1069/files/hidden_object_games_no_downloads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/34181714609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8577/4502/files/99290522948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1740/3549/files/revajububuzewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/daradibutowilarovuzudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5279/2982/files/36694602209.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8926 5856 bytes
SHA-256: c41a8c31fdc685cb3cccb516dd834d2c5047283269f947f2e6249f7c84dbda28
font_01_sfnt_off00009d25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D25 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 6539b129c5cd894636dc8f40f53a156c00c8f46378ab4f137c96d687a1cff6ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000a888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA888 12540 bytes
SHA-256: e8f28d7dba08eab1f6643eb336200f89c04b369835875fa9d8722435e4b2c2c0
font_03_sfnt_off0000d0d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D0 14432 bytes
SHA-256: 2001191c8a23729212f3f172336d14d6762179373aecd10536104ac9f75b6258