Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e92f095ce09b9bdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 21:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 25ac45cdf26c5ab835b5da71ac47b701 SHA-1: 6814f68432d55a3bd43001f25551c25b410967e6 SHA-256: e92f095ce09b9bdf0b708c5dc4319b04330586eade95f072953082b8b43cf520
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identifies a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.ru', which is likely used to funnel victims to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and other links hosted on domains like 'jovaunholmes.com', 'pur-pro.com', and 'doublephorsemanship.com', suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=respiratory+system+of+human+body+parts+and+functions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jovaunholmes.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873973/818c81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watuk.pur-pro.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437044/molovomonibakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.doublephorsemanship.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813851/salovunopovisex.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/1/0437/1388/8405/files/beowulf_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3258/9989/files/revimelizexiforelamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1520/files/kupifipogisimuwaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7525/3910/files/calculus_with_analytic_geometry_peterson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6214/0840/files/30308650571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3503/1712/files/85827710593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8239/1451/files/420660526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1528/1568/files/schroeder_thermal_physics_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1829/7245/files/zakoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4267/6648/files/duzevowebaxojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6318/1463/files/bomitesimaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1733/1100/files/how_to_pull_from_github_terminal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9245/7112/files/vokosatesudebolil.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_off0000830b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x830B 5496 bytes
SHA-256: ebb7c348a29062fa92a2afc776740b21409151a36a243ad9d66f9b475e22a061
font_01_sfnt_off00009598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9598 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 71b66db91071368a8c6d3daf171f97278f75455122b53d5170e70373d82000ca
font_02_sfnt_off0000b8ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8CE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361