Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d975a57ae01649e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 15:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2a822f31fcc771dbbaf8ad2bd1e442f9 SHA-1: c031865aebb9b79e77e9274ca4aef244db51093a SHA-256: d975a57ae01649e138d8ee90434594bcdf384be4729a42595414d0aa7ab3f57c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive document body and numerous embedded links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=how+to+recover+unsaved+word+document+2016 as malicious. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=how+to+recover+unsaved+word+document+2016 In PDF document text
    • http://files.plainfieldfarmersfair.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/8667f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mylighthouselearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/fojate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.xinzhangdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874594/bomuponagojipijakisa.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/1/0432/3423/0429/files/vimexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/12796272196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4699/3063/files/53576181001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7147/9713/files/jupijimefunokalonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/73194030663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6462/3265/files/38526300944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5753/7439/files/31882749846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6661/3141/files/48618538380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/57617730999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5077/0333/files/55820580827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tipibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/93616534700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0565/4678/files/butasawowagisejut.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6116 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 9c229a4c20188d3afcff684f9dd50e379938e7460cd984365abfbf1c89b08c19
font_01_sfnt_off000073ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73AE 9928 bytes
SHA-256: 90ee43d5185d1f9dcee007366d044382e6bc41cb19cce11c6fb32f390f9f1142
font_02_sfnt_off0000959c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x959C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333