Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02f2879351cd2ed8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 00:21:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: df4e5b12559a0fdd93b0b6357716558b SHA-1: a2188b57689bcb65ccc3a01cdcb5daf7d41a9872 SHA-256: 02f2879351cd2ed8ef4486d22425506a0cab8ef96251d0d47b9560b1f03d48cd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=acetate+sheets+stencils`, which is flagged as malicious. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely using a lure of free downloads to redirect users to harmful content. The document body itself contains garbled text but also includes the malicious redirector URL and several Shopify URLs, some of which are benign and likely used to mask the malicious activity.

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=acetate+sheets+stencils In PDF document text
    • http://sopera.smartgriddesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/2313e98f6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gejuwoxe.saclegalprep.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712237/buridulof-nofusavuselazi-fetimowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.equivistacoaching.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696111/polumazub-wumaf-gogunoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesavisa.igcsebusiness.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/bogogofaranobo.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/1/0431/7826/2689/files/7870523109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4248/8998/files/fejexatefugufirixufekuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7645/files/greatest_love_of_all_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3506/5505/files/jotejifaxulixefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5181/7883/files/99177700629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7926/1590/files/bunudebewifomekovulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8258/7037/files/desolokifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2775/9257/files/talasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0041/4883/files/royal_order_of_adjectives_worksheets.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_off00005545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5545 4780 bytes
SHA-256: f2a988a6a9def3de87cce03f1e446b120f7db03238e3e242273b34faa0286ffc
font_01_sfnt_off00006573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6573 9960 bytes
SHA-256: 57bb080369226d4b0c55822c07fd79d18204eb184179a9cd56dbeb12f0e84a84