Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7897fbad326d27b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:06:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c411dfd23a5846a361e18755ea1df6a8 SHA-1: 5d7db4ff4651776e69216c0640479244829e8ad8 SHA-256: e7897fbad326d27b9fae5b3b1c87076ca5c778d3a5ad7d3d0e142097a62d9e12
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=schneider+nsx+mccb+catalogue+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. The document body contains obfuscated text and numerous embedded URLs, supporting the finding of a link farm designed to 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.com/pify?keyword=schneider+nsx+mccb+catalogue+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.maggieabril.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164479/45d38871ad0ca2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roswellorchestra.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378779/9685406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.williamlongo.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606636/4505691.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/1/0429/5639/0551/files/59711436238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3953/8851/files/zodetawewejewifepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6956/3290/files/53963093377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8573/9670/files/xanodolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0559/9140/files/dawulujixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0491/8941/files/what_goes_on_beatles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2790/6206/files/dieta_keto_menu_semanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5719/2853/files/imdb_the_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69440205977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mirizopenifipometetotagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8259/6004/files/88002006697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1174/3639/files/viscous_fluid_flow_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7930/3317/files/59994613940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/99017356986.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_off000049f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x49F5 5880 bytes
SHA-256: fe63f93221acae39cde42152701a83cef844a544f768ab7c7d5e55eb975ae4e1
font_01_sfnt_off00005dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DD2 9352 bytes
SHA-256: 6110568f3c9ee9eb970d4656dbfc0556c598b39e177c19c8f522f28b3454d43a