Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7f656d47424ea21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 16:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cf0055b1200ad5e9e3ff8344caf3ea5 SHA-1: 8872483b5126dc5b702828c7676a2e5858c82681 SHA-256: f7f656d47424ea2113b30acbf33ed9d3f66bd2f0744ded98bf1e857bd9a1ebbd
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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=expanding+double+brackets+surds+worksheet'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick the user into clicking it. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, further supporting a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful 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=expanding+double+brackets+surds+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.sasbirdclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382406/2884174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aging-success.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069812/fumapodepidi-duzuju-favele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.powermilers.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680827/sakosemonatimozo.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/1/0433/8561/8583/files/35128604981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1036/5339/files/open_source_church_management_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8119/5927/files/love_on_the_brain_saxophone_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0947/2669/files/32409890761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1606/1091/files/lijajatinowamimivede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8857/6661/files/21531511345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9861/2636/files/netawajuzomidixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9471/9131/files/nesufilowarerejavazoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1028728638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5206/4155/files/python_book_for_advanced_programmers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6231/files/remote_front_end_developer_jobs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6785/9359/files/18803656753.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8072 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 5c9dff0cdac2648e644934d0b3fdc5e5cc08a00f46fa70c2f7858324f67b1459
font_01_sfnt_off0000934a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x934A 14132 bytes
SHA-256: afcaa01679eafc4edf58dae5467c22bb1360e6d582b28dc5b1bb15647d28330e
font_02_sfnt_off0000bf6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF6B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230