Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1529a28184e88c13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 07c6c4aff98273341e417ad067ced38c SHA-1: e248c29a4fa8d8de4060747ea351974b503e893a SHA-256: 1529a28184e88c13d8134a58092788cf86d4abebc9de72523cc8a17b30289525
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The primary malicious link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bitsat+last+year+paper+with+solution+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, likely intended to appear as legitimate academic resources to trick users into clicking.

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=bitsat+last+year+paper+with+solution+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bevujiv.mbcdoulaschool.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/podelawepipogebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewik.candlewyckhomes.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/2438796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edgeofstyle.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637889/lotuxexabuzava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8428/files/24211633732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4521/5656/files/balanced_binary_tree.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8937/1040/files/zusetogurexofazaxito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2492/3298/files/aerodynamics_lecture_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0890/0768/files/nateladamuzagub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3105/0915/files/67465536684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6668/6629/files/rawava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1942/6198/files/wefuninubatebomarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2426/8968/files/free_amharic_orthodox_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4595/1400/files/38413536898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5670/9273/files/43406795801.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6163 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 83b107ee28a27d31d566d8715096459ee75d48c35fc48a8398517e8495453771
font_01_sfnt_off000073ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73AD 5648 bytes
SHA-256: 5c142e21529c3008cd9965c43e0f8c5d3dc883d3fc94227741b9e95ea3527861
font_02_sfnt_off0000836c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x836C 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 2ffd1ce48af8af121ff33842044ec9e8673585f04015edc278c2c6248288e4f3
font_03_sfnt_off0000a676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA676 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 7a7e0f9cb89785dee93ecfbcc78ef93b5a18a5022886c2d5a0bf15d9412c15a0
font_04_sfnt_off0000bbfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBFE 3420 bytes
SHA-256: 21cedf5b71e6b39afe8c8afd78a750cfb6b6ec6b92560ed3201933dfcdfafcf2