Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff0d1357c2e1efe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 17:08:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6814621e0db50ac6a295b19d3954a4bf SHA-1: 1c187eb681bf3835867f901306960ea91c0737c0 SHA-256: ff0d1357c2e1efe7935a1adf61e8bb50813ed5fd873a34c43ff2c2488d0e6e99
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=avery+8160+christmas+label+template'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to drive traffic to this malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further stages.

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=avery+8160+christmas+label+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.frankechenhofer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453725/saledurejorade_jujemezonawumeg_sifebanirajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapumoda.kinneycountygcd.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/4ce97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molexel.gocopywrite.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/97cbec7c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinosu.yesshecancampaign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454859/pomipazijuredo.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/1/0430/8343/2096/files/lakaborog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sosivizugepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0807/7473/files/vivorarajagikajupajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3551/6318/files/46670332141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/liberace_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2679/2100/files/dubipojajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5096/4904/files/catalogue_asco_numatics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8397/1237/files/56819007907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1644/4311/files/pemarirulekisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1767/4656/files/lovaguwizasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7613/0718/files/julate.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_off00004ba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BA2 6004 bytes
SHA-256: 0e206a0f4afc49e72bc0997d8e814020cbf73c8eac9ea64f9d374fa2785f2b11
font_01_sfnt_off00005ff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FF9 9564 bytes
SHA-256: a78b51dcefec3957adc7b19d5501a566a66eaae17d1eb5223a18fbfd34a6c130