Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f799a2f555d16863…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 12:42:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 651d407e58be5d5169b2ce11df4ebea9 SHA-1: c0a3480c75a18a4676fe237df94180c708146852 SHA-256: f799a2f555d1686370e40f6dcab35e46efb4ad7ab2c5a0b09f9f903d8426d656
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive lure for a 'Principles of Virology' PDF, which is a common tactic for SEO poisoning. The primary embedded URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=principles+of+virology+pdf+free+download, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also contains a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a malicious redirection attempt.

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=principles+of+virology+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://kupis.renewcleaningservice.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695818/womevoketojikosututi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ewgic.eu/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164506/d584456510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nationalnightouteasterndistrict.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437702/5118415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buttercreamlane.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637190/4422115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xapaw.ivexpo.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302872/melinusufagazix.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/1/0433/2178/6521/files/16402263603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9167/2736/files/58625156520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0291/2168/files/jumafatabagujegopusaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7507/files/xoxotadosixevizifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7496/8997/files/16307876701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7663/2214/files/gewined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2449/9367/files/wasinevoxikosetedebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8484/1124/files/15854710346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0539/3571/files/gofuwukiloziwuzanumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3945/7431/files/zepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3393/4496/files/20946333536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0007/0307/files/92360024442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7182/3267/files/rodebukedudolimurini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4602/files/fuvewoxevep.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_off0000555c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x555C 5580 bytes
SHA-256: d48fd4a38ce979346411569b680b194497bc9cf3b5767d112ea91845122c7d89
font_01_sfnt_off00006883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6883 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 388ec08a88dbba74e3d3384c9bf393f294fa4d175e639a60af5bf95d0ca4dd43