Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db02fab567fc8e0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:46:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: eacb5bb7f5823cb0484d89f8fc27d6f4 SHA-1: bf47e48b7c3e03d197766565d9908fd11ad6864d SHA-256: db02fab567fc8e0c45551898dd2d6a394d98639d5b4bea7fb2a749fae2490c7f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=audio+visual+aids+in+health+education+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body itself does not contain a clear narrative, relying on the link farm for its malicious payload delivery.

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=audio+visual+aids+in+health+education+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zajavi.susannaabeldesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712615/durapogukuzinunuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.enzopizarrodesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695491/2702735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demaze.ogphotography1.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776031/tomikegufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.universitywomenofbgsu.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695190/3515348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ipswichgaragedoors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739919/munusidoxabasegugan.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/1/0432/9917/6612/files/wimoludipenobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1928/0288/files/37565101508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/kitorupimobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9581/0455/files/burazifikosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3788/8410/files/cambridge_latin_course_unit_1_stage_tests.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7124/2389/files/kiwazimipitode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9949/6351/files/79575489672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9755/5093/files/98371732366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0078/files/98055616067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4214/3388/files/58029078866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9281/9616/files/zipefekugegupafitexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5561/2058/files/sims_3_mansion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4903/3627/files/appropriate_preposition_list_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3391/1705/files/donitonabobesozaxazuv.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_off00007f84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F84 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 0abd682b6c7cc98400b8f9d67e8f40ef4ac6cfba9460892f2731989e5706925d
font_01_sfnt_off0000913b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x913B 9888 bytes
SHA-256: 873c081102e346e98d74f0a89cc2f709b3fa78de533c4b22ae6878ea29bf5945