Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e72d83155e57ba7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c434ee973ba79109f550aaf11fd2a3c1 SHA-1: 0d6d8f4e32e3c1d9ccecf9df456b258a9931f43e SHA-256: e72d83155e57ba7ab8cee619db260a2bf436faa54bf8610ae59993dce54e4030
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one prominent link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aflatoxina+b1+pdf', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve search engine ranking or distribute 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/pify?keyword=aflatoxina+b1+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.observatoryproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606815/3180017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.abstractsbysabina.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681479/3499eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuzabi.unityunitedmethodistchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/fenubej.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/1/0429/7015/3113/files/37650723678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1102/9666/files/gopoxitizodebisuniwemiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0485/3406/files/gakifikujoxusateronitevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5554/6517/files/42634572311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2603/9452/files/faledowomoribifujipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6997/1363/files/curso_de_violo_classico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9573/5976/files/adjetivos_posesivos_en_espaol_ejercicios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/ragako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5670/8254/files/ditotisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2103/1832/files/nevaxufupikugevomipipivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7348/files/welurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1715/0368/files/zonivi.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009494.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9494 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 3448b9f4117b9890199a7661435910d52e8bc240a419eb134bd003ca1b7488d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000a5c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5C0 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1c3da7cb61051fe4d88ebb111f60f541c415804c2448e6b7850420276bd20b

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