Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10ad1f30aeea4841…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 08:51:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 85ba9d9342ff30a8b6923a372b471550 SHA-1: cd41d82724fe44910021f12dbdcc5b0904756c29 SHA-256: 10ad1f30aeea484196b9ebd62eb58102f73b5ac784cdd61a4c1f7b7353486133
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service designed to obscure the final destination. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent. The primary redirector URL is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=entrepreneurship+development+book+pdf+free+download', which is used to funnel victims to potentially malicious content disguised as a free download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=entrepreneurship+development+book+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.actamsea.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813777/jugizixidomiwaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crueltyfreecuisine.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455722/5164090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eriklamontphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739542/begelipalixewagetujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.military2millionaires.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776338/4208728.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/1/0428/2338/5247/files/vukexewudazegazotaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3287/7976/files/11960928298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2635/7152/files/tixidixewole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5486/5320/files/60555618782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6195/2155/files/zitazawumikopuvutolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8909/3018/files/ganupuronajugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5542/3396/files/kuromutewepafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9159/1321/files/71443464596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7085/7122/files/heroku_maintenance_mode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4396/3548/files/pusudomopaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1294/files/tijelisolapoviguxedoweweg.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_off00005fcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FCD 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 31ced6d5fb2205e3804b7b355d2b60d7af7f8594782ba3f7e0e30d8afdec1863
font_01_sfnt_off000072b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B0 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 33d80b5e357abfa3ea91f5eff18928953f8e36d8e9a7aea158c838e8ae756dd9
font_02_sfnt_off00007c7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C7A 12236 bytes
SHA-256: 3b25f50c9ad45830863a153a23bf88f24e9f6dffae0e2e57c217b1c9308c9041