Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1ac209f31bb6416…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 73d40175d570f2f50509eddd0414af30 SHA-1: c73be50b63b267cc5350f90fa55f5505bd4773ab SHA-256: f1ac209f31bb6416ac083f88865526ae1ec0d1631ef691d24a1711e960b4e4e2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to direct users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=le%20bescherelle%20conjugaison%20pdf'. While many other links point to benign Shopify domains, the presence of the malicious redirector is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links, suggesting a coordinated effort to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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/wb?keyword=le%20bescherelle%20conjugaison%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sutib.seekhaven.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606938/fawufixodireloparupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westvalleyfamiliesestrella.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815123/1892165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.peterson-equipment.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682790/4bfbacaebb4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutimule.lhjhchoir.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740850/2505869.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/1/0433/6910/3528/files/43358598860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8427/1016/files/84304415738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0279/6964/files/catholic_symbols_and_meanings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7769/2581/files/types_of_taxonomic_characters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7633/7318/files/pokaxalatoworuporipizawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4836/9319/files/saraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7311/7086/files/91505765947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1751/8751/files/sumifivugipediri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2030/3006/files/12092210711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5127/6696/files/jusisaposokimerufobarupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6534/files/e5_a4_a9_e6_b0_a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8845/4559/files/60563176910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4494/4542/files/34053754617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sarozasupevukofapunaxovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2998/7489/files/electrical_systems_design_book.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
🗂 Part of campaign: peterson-equipment.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004ca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CA6 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 73d819124f1432096304a0bf34471ba6a4b52c957711900a9fe9abf0c0310a1a
font_01_sfnt_off00005ed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ED4 11124 bytes
SHA-256: d35a9c1430f8123fe1089617db44ca730f7176a49b23bac492f4a1168efcc091
font_02_sfnt_off00008400.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8400 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71