Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe0f10f1b7be6ee0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 01:26:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 806d648df14196f37a2330a6fd303895 SHA-1: ace9e1293aea3a30a042a042e8759b9b41ed0b1d SHA-256: fe0f10f1b7be6ee0323ec63c03fae09501bb944ffcf33f164245932867c87dda
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `ttraff.ru`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=b+d+chaurasia+human+anatomy+8th+edition+pdf+free+download`, suggesting a lure related to downloading a book. The presence of numerous Shopify links, some confirmed benign, may be an attempt to blend in with legitimate 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=b+d+chaurasia+human+anatomy+8th+edition+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.leatherandlavender.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874125/wumezuso-xenulija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwifi.myfrontierfoods.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383297/dipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wildrumpusphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776561/bda0b7fe8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mylocaldog.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775655/733263990d552.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/1/0434/0921/1549/files/begin_the_beguine_clarinet_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2065/6545/files/24290361485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9567/0427/files/womevabomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/4375608528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6333/files/48104463785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2361/3595/files/zumilulajejaporukuludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/48465164240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6524/4832/files/rafi_biochemistry_book_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5058/1662/files/essae_ds_451_calibration_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9746/3714/files/convert_to_word_using_macro.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_off00005351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5351 5716 bytes
SHA-256: 635908f3b52a313bf16010a398e0b502e761612efd0e3638d270e5c4642fb2f5
font_01_sfnt_off000066b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66B3 9844 bytes
SHA-256: 4d79cd44500bdbbb75aa330b71c08d2011284f7ca76da0ceb606aadcb470f4af
font_02_sfnt_off00008864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8864 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3