Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5cc90de944cb2c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 19:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 988434e1833b462cb52a41baeaf1dd78 SHA-1: 5617e5774f0baae8e641c4e5997cc23ddcb07007 SHA-256: f5cc90de944cb2c5a377af575d3750cb052adebb48c8bb2030b39048e1a7480c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=vba+excel+2020+for+dummies+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further supports a link-farming or redirection-based attack pattern.

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=vba+excel+2020+for+dummies+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.handyplan.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695732/xebefiwaguti_gusadapeja_jatobozilezu_babofefodudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joelouismusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383943/de22852315f2268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.isbhu.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681891/siduwekemudonijokuvu.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/1/0436/4071/7472/files/17169209683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6652/2790/files/fallout_4_ballistic_weave_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7689/3334/files/47049276516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8209/5517/files/fisher_yates_shuffle_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7316/6757/files/kirevezogifetikuxepijire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8517/6736/files/7717840599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3645/8654/files/guludelozoxepenovezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9875/8567/files/97673957129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8808/5145/files/bowiripuwurava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8668/3037/files/zelasukimoxalafudajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/setivenegi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000900a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x900A 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad060e9032bcc051812ffd66dac1a56c142ef33859455230ef9e87eb9ab3955
font_01_sfnt_off0000a285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA285 10128 bytes
SHA-256: d533874fc435444b9ab4840c078e03efca83ea2d05570579eec3bf6283dfd26d
font_02_sfnt_off0000c52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC52E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378

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