Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c295dc8631302a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 16:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7dd395d427abe0043d2717f848e787bf SHA-1: 7e95d9f72181a35835d0579b73ac79c031c2d4f7 SHA-256: e7c295dc8631302a94f305bc7a8e521122fa65551031c207740ef2e96c110a6e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=big+al%2527+s+fishing+guide+sacramento', is designed to redirect users. Another heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Big al's fishing guide sacramento', likely a lure to entice clicks on the embedded malicious link.

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=big+al%2527+s+fishing+guide+sacramento In PDF document text
    • http://bemajirod.belizesportsoutreach.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775166/fapomi.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/1/0429/6137/1290/files/nenifonomelaparegawoses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5603/6005/files/nedilowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1418/3323/files/52950590012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5099/0753/files/78572882980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9967/5040/files/aankh_marey_dance_performance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3314/1149/files/buresemanuzodusegojoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2728/9496/files/gutakorevopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6965/9549/files/bfs_and_dfs_in_ai.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2707/0117/files/air_supply_all_songs_free.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_off000059e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59E4 5516 bytes
SHA-256: dcfa92b26188de8aab2e878f77fe060213c32c404016c655a523b88fc10dfa94
font_01_sfnt_off00006c78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C78 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 6c9af7e7adef25840e40cd6dde8fcd1e7ad60b2ef042747f887c4d8a109773ac