Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42bc387eef6991f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 09:02:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8a9da55acde6ff629213647840445493 SHA-1: 534246fdd40ff89945d9111ceb3e08e9e1b3e367 SHA-256: f42bc387eef6991fc7ba41cd2f81579a9e1031584db8c907fa75f15bc4c67e89
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=multiplexer%20and%20demultiplexer%20circuit%20pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, including one hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains embedded URLs that likely serve as the lure. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user 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=multiplexer%20and%20demultiplexer%20circuit%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bwitched.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/eab048c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mejikeko.southwestyogaacademy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775612/fanatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cjcthelord.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814900/tekoguxonubo-pemidosisonume-baparakujo-volisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elginartist.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813972/3ffec8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebeccaandersonart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407857/6928554.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/1/0430/0016/8597/files/32671607098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3278/6597/files/black_ops_2_steam_key_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8945/3473/files/togegilelumelubefozojusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63529720688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4326/6458/files/widifewodafazalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5340/6618/files/selfcare._rr._com_change_password.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/jobomorupiwerosanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5307/2022/files/3966490383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8665/files/worlds_hardest_game_hacked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0303/4276/files/mugijetavigizelanelekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9122/1923/files/nazidewopali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4456/9242/files/tapitokuj.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B86 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 3fac6f54e94f8937763c4c680fe1515f53b8b00c72d6f8b79535bff2eaea9fbd
font_01_sfnt_off00008d36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D36 10580 bytes
SHA-256: b74c99f2eb47c5e620a4d1a506af3223af81e342085aa6140024e87de6f11a19
font_02_sfnt_off0000b187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB187 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 38b6ed9c22e1510dd00534e047962dae65cb50c48ea5ab5bbfde3b48fe6022c0