Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2f5ae4c073d4a44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 10:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ba2c3319d18617cb5f941499e6b6f36 SHA-1: f60bf6e853358f3f233a0cfc8bc31eeecd062fd8 SHA-256: f2f5ae4c073d4a449a28988c8eddbe668a9d12e337386ec180dc286d846b3cf6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=introduction+to+geographic+information+systems+9th+edition+pdf+download, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to PDF downloads and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking through to potentially malicious content.

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=introduction+to+geographic+information+systems+9th+edition+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://wifexolu.jonathanjohnson.net/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/sesutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogevak.noelanipta.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874655/9431467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.baeculture.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437295/jusowupit-fusozaruj-kagunojuweg-zulilaturuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annastark.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453855/224414.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/1/0433/7539/4979/files/xonelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/61030812111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2707/8042/files/baror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7606/6207/files/matipebegobibodarobuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3334/6719/files/lefawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1667/4713/files/sudetunajijafisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4764/9429/files/63465634936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/lurexagewusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9434/3841/files/vedutivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2094/2486/files/79333835584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8371/0117/files/jalorofujezegizominifi.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5133 5856 bytes
SHA-256: 882ab3a2c33631081f8ade7d3eda76307c4d5c712add38dde4247b7e07f075cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000650f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x650F 9716 bytes
SHA-256: 15ac5bb9de27be408735df37b62bd96d6f9179e29dffef6ae8b467e292fbf98a

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