Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc12005a0f912d8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4b722c28ed576ca11b6c33831dd43c09 SHA-1: bc8d6ef363385fd473709a4f15005319fb473ae9 SHA-256: dc12005a0f912d8fa3921bc7495b396856cef359c7d2e93566a02cad68459368
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of a large number of external links, a technique often used for SEO farms or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic firing points to a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=reportero+tv+azteca+muere'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm with 28 external PDF links, predominantly hosted on cdn.shopify.com. No scripts were extracted from this sample, and the document body contained mostly garbled text and URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=reportero+tv+azteca+muere In PDF document text
    • http://files.cassiusapparel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383207/biwafuxeda-xujodugow-kovabazujo-firor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebornanimalrefuge.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740068/kurel-ropegaf-dibedubaze-tezomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vcgallery.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856381/rokererukirejakifu.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/1/0433/5815/9006/files/remotejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8130/0123/files/anastasia_animated_movie_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6208/4262/files/19658173312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3890/4220/files/86769021247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8146/6005/files/20913379593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0522/2822/files/jijukefokenipejikosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3739/9957/files/88578569329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7272/4897/files/96800200290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4011/1782/files/art_roman_art_gothique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6273/8592/files/calendar_printable_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5665/1669/files/certificado_de_preparatoria_falso.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000054d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54D0 3136 bytes
SHA-256: 6487091c0070741e646db4a1cda49bb5dd8928231115cd9838b724a369c8679e
font_01_sfnt_off00005ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFB 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 67d91b704b0d12103636e6ddc186379123ccc7cb86603c25c1866fb6db07bad5
font_02_sfnt_off000070e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70E5 2896 bytes
SHA-256: a12827b2455ffc87821ca5c6f5a9fc95ec2c07e9e8100fd7645bc7f358e21e1b
font_03_sfnt_off00007c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C1D 10556 bytes
SHA-256: f0cc3202ee8cc448d7e04b40f19a6688a4402109157a927283c55c107bf48dc3
font_04_sfnt_off0000a07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA07C 16380 bytes
SHA-256: 9c71aaea62549e89be2b80026e8552e529abc9849e27d4ac1176ef2fe88b9bd5