Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f196946dcff0febd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 19:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7e21fc91fdde3f41e1e71c740aa8db37 SHA-1: 2b756cde936ac023f666ee1d113ea4c66bd55357 SHA-256: f196946dcff0febd2392bba1ef671c4924ae238e5267cdba1af5bfe204760061
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. One of the primary URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=do+marketing+de+estrat%25C3%25A9gia+de+market', is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other benign-looking PDF links hosted on Shopify, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The file was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, which aligns with the link farm tactic.

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=do+marketing+de+estrat%25C3%25A9gia+de+market In PDF document text
    • http://files.meadowlynnfarms.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636978/sadenoxem_xatijibakexon_vagaxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahnestiwillard.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874246/0f2aa0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.robinrjames.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637701/56c3690a381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aurabin.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637024/goxupa-pojurutivo-fowul-mavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vemivisi.teamemfield.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637419/tekulufifit.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/1/0435/2029/5064/files/rawosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4800/8866/files/tax_audit_report_clauses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7344/4767/files/3409714269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3754/7929/files/nissan_almera_tino_manual_deutsch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2677/9034/files/talovuwelulidakobilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1283/3959/files/belisizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7402/2550/files/carolina_panthers_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8096/5534/files/alimentos_organicos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1229/1751/files/application_for_passport_for_minor_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7744/3483/files/15417055090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/1688313738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1347/1384/files/70105817697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1769/7437/files/vitukudupos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2998/5430/files/navaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5896/8229/files/kujimogigideva.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_off000070d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70D7 5320 bytes
SHA-256: 88ad9cae11703ad149357541656bafa9b74d837b85fe11f677253d87b6a2a39f
font_01_sfnt_off0000828f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x828F 12012 bytes
SHA-256: 4103be408537cea3a85aae38cc9cf2571c7e72e68789b03cef29c43023366d28