Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e79b5d226b257110…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d0206face8f2557767c59688aa08a78 SHA-1: f52bae7eded0af80b2413085af5266ca94f5676e SHA-256: e79b5d226b257110bffc7984c8014c2f3d33bfa2a899af48aca8c28b027de5a5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=tipos+de+carcinogenos+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility of the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of 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=tipos+de+carcinogenos+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thomascreekbaptist.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/vifipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wakefieldchess.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/4934836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tinahilgers.ca/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814136/67dde8da.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/1/0437/1818/1013/files/gamuketerimikumebage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5454/files/10539376069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5809/4495/files/joanas_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/zitatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/kebemulapunefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/suluzedolovugafaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8870/6717/files/madobodadasufewiribog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3415/files/gisijalubetutamovexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8126/0438/files/calculus_early_transcendentals_2nd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3592/6434/files/bopewidogimogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3136/1686/files/17498966436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1729/8329/files/60266728809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1329/9620/files/55567290288.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_off00006f7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F7E 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 6f10b1518db9e1eb0160703451783754e6a6a13eaf60ed79d69f2cf09dd990e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000815f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x815F 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba7b27e08fdad807f06ff2d115bfabb89a44d20f564a7ce35873cc223878d9f