Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05b0293627cfbf87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 10:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 40244b9f8be46a540a1a5f0ce730e4e0 SHA-1: d8c795aa10bd69846adb536d377be111e5352748 SHA-256: 05b0293627cfbf87f3ff3106fc1a4c096e8ed94f480f8c18493b4f5f45c09231
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious due to its use of a redirector link, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=java+programming+objective+type+questions+and+answers+pdf`, which is part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt disguised as educational content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=java+programming+objective+type+questions+and+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ask-noodles.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398573/jikibapuseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shopdelmarcielle.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738572/zapepa_zejola_gimisuralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spicelandtown.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775746/fotisivupimi_wuzuder_rixama_bedixuwoza.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dofupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8306/2695/files/angularjs_reader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8570/8968/files/34997710873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6763/5867/files/dilefopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56697352128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8396/4324/files/nasegexura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7382/9032/files/dark_souls_2_victors_stone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pewowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7718/0328/files/nathalie_sarraute_tropismes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5288/3352/files/tomorrow_lyrics_annie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3720/3364/files/hollander_interchange_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2051/5488/files/xomokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0096/files/57665480256.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_off0000856b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x856B 5912 bytes
SHA-256: ceb45948b594d90d24b3c0bd758718029d7a83bc046a8c6df230ad31d11df447
font_01_sfnt_off00009980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9980 12024 bytes
SHA-256: 0078b9117b5ceef9134da32725c04344d3afe04daee0987d4f6a47cbcafac235
font_02_sfnt_off0000c0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0DC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176