Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0b41f93135d782f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:50:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6093e98e6eda7badaa9d506cd05f90a2 SHA-1: e3784ec61069c1989a9210cfb6aa88c5c2275c4e SHA-256: e0b41f93135d782fb5db34056aa6534f7fa14e80159b11d44f8ac38657c06253
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=fusion+des+fichiers+pdf+en+ligne'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to PDF merging, likely a lure to entice users to click the malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links and the specific redirector URL strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=fusion+des+fichiers+pdf+en+ligne In PDF document text
    • http://files.vandersystreefarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/6896237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.f4f-uncdf.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740814/2e986edc014c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edmundzygowski.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163914/95a7804da766b.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/1/0432/7122/5502/files/30916889794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3499/2025/files/aims_and_objectives_of_cooking_food.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5530/7159/files/architectural_thesis_project.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8886/1602/files/phonetic_chart_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5045/8520/files/67145608844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3199/3242/files/12339109962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7658/2560/files/33075441279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1317/6469/files/xelirimisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0234/files/98106299318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6138/7170/files/gufavugagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9643/8936/files/34903631430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2497/1936/files/lomemigejuturufofoxemoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9289/3093/files/english_grammar_basic_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2729/9478/files/71841994342.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_off00005e9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E9E 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 701ad6b9d5fcdd640955b81fa69f92323df7b827ee5fa97a2bba7f3b497da2c8
font_01_sfnt_off00006f6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F6F 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 03a9b393cdd613b91fd74cc81d67ad18a8168ad1dff104a76051af0f9a2b1466
font_02_sfnt_off000093b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93B5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378