Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f78650dd73acc3e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 73f81ac3fa980a3d70e466bf3404a6f3 SHA-1: 1beacefab55187dab7c55502f98c78ecbaafe5f5 SHA-256: f78650dd73acc3e68389102080333c486f0ebf3884f83e00b4cdeb9acbb0ab64
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=photosynthesis+worksheet+answers'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to download worksheet answers. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the document body itself is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is the primary indicator of compromise.

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=photosynthesis+worksheet+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.lifeinmint.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/ropikanumite-poxizeparodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reneesance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379724/8439809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.financialwriterssociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969254/warodigigokafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kleindesignclass.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856134/najabeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesavitu.sewmanylinens.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398348/nukokad-nikifakanufi.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/1/0432/3124/8542/files/69739989475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9435/1778/files/bazatazodekaguvitamode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2294/8264/files/staff_appraisal_sample_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8575/8617/files/pnc_mortgage_speedpay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0695/9514/files/tostee_sex_tape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4021/6987/files/meditations_marcus_aurelius.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9622/0572/files/73866955561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0726/files/zebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2693/1099/files/bosch_classixx_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9751/3381/files/vezenakuwovirunibugapumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1024/3229/files/67763588272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9735/7472/files/69267228986.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_off00006abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABE 5000 bytes
SHA-256: 30bf93393af7b8571c820a4b9a14624c535ff17c4123c71104e44279bbc8fb75
font_01_sfnt_off00007bc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC1 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 0d82ed2dd3f90b4ece3f22f025a1a44d86ff542479ab5b0485cb877b308a34a8