Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 014ae2534735c220…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 12:54:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9b9c3773c9ecb9909f145fbcf1ad3745 SHA-1: fc0148d90afa78aaac643a9f870f89c99cd2bfce SHA-256: 014ae2534735c2205d7c9e9ed6cc972b784b95cea77381fa77b5adf887ccb029
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bjt+applications+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same redirector URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=bjt+applications+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mrcolliard.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438449/witakoba_dafiw_xexewina_fakowizekosoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lonsdale-estate.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437770/7476893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gbsupplyco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/pobusazilotatuzere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jimbruner.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776644/wupejerur.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/1/0432/3655/6962/files/ripajojutebowidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ziduvawijixivobufanevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3051/8682/files/safasoxirikiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1746/9080/files/21386205307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2965/files/24017052307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6333/files/gozepowatevatekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1896/0545/files/zoboresumasabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9075/6259/files/sizobufotakoxewuzepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/64994231383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6466/7810/files/what_s_on_spike_tv_right_now.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2627/6775/files/zuzefisegotikejokaxonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2153/9240/files/19641036321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0342/9535/files/3341841612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tufajotojitumawudawemir.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e78f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78F 5180 bytes
SHA-256: a735294daab83955aea71fd3494dc8385fc817431e9284d7e36c76753466600b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94A 15788 bytes
SHA-256: 4cdef892f8a28f32a27391f9858a44a957dc4464aa48dd426c6875b92cf3f432
font_02_sfnt_off00012b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B3C 16128 bytes
SHA-256: 66cc4d6caaef1a4bf39a49522c9c7395c84a542fae143de6602935ce0c2c3434