Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcdf901b2786b679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 15:54:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1e7e5a0974a8a62b671789a1b3d7819 SHA-1: c761f1523d68e49a4a91bf8ae8d74785972d46d9 SHA-256: fcdf901b2786b6799685c2d150a347c3681f6f389d9500269837025dbc55a611
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=atto+di+notoriet%25C3%25A0+modello+pdf'. Additionally, another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious links. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent.

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=atto+di+notoriet%25C3%25A0+modello+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.entechinspections.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070508/ribazivajorilafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.poterinc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437655/2a03f06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jamesandthegiantpeachstand.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163953/e87c8bac89a21.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/1/0437/2345/6661/files/62177144137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2619/4342/files/54333329518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8436/5468/files/rumusasapukiruwupedore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1954/1416/files/articulaciones_costovertebrales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/st-_119._1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2664/4125/files/45515736083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0351/8882/files/toxewigujemunipetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1047/files/wuxufujewokabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6083/8050/files/wetekajunofewamexugaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6943/2230/files/rtx_2080_drivers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6459/7397/files/60469656756.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8808 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 1fa5097974517354f6713ef806a9f44239f50538dee59d81a3b7954e14ffcf4d
font_01_sfnt_off00009906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9906 11316 bytes
SHA-256: ac6f9de580fe09c86fcd3d1e8c86215b2618d60a971e698438cd4ae707833d02

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