Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a03cc08f1f4634d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 02:29:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1824144f93e0c0ecd8fcb674b4620408 SHA-1: 643df2182296f066aa515e8af98b933581835f70 SHA-256: 1a03cc08f1f4634df66951aad26e87464109d8de5aa1c60dc234de837bc18c93
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a lure related to 'lol akali jungle guide', but the primary malicious activity appears to be the mass embedding of external PDF links. Many of these links point to Shopify-hosted PDFs, but also to numerous other domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One of the embedded URLs, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=lol+akali+jungle+guide, is explicitly identified as a malicious redirector.

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=lol+akali+jungle+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.aussiehowe.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164295/5d2628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.labonteinsurance.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775866/zolavuzeriseko-sozixo-poted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christianmusselman.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816202/pesug_memuzidusiko_midum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivugexet.roguevalleycavaliers.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/b3fb3cbde1ac243.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/1/0430/0062/7363/files/84730718719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3834/3322/files/zaranimefinunikajutozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5864/0549/files/foundations_of_physical_science.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48695811849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/begisubuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8865/files/doors_of_stone_news.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2119/7735/files/riralukidibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3330/0885/files/dowells_cable_gland_price_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5458/8316/files/reporter_definition_larousse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2974/9145/files/73832828275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4681/3346/files/bobafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9618/7815/files/40149577461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8828/9694/files/pafexarikogejaniv.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_off00007a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A7A 4800 bytes
SHA-256: d3fb90701529a8a9c2fa8735d7a465fd72f1e1c5d6b5cf21cae4788bdc18ba93
font_01_sfnt_off00008ae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AE6 16420 bytes
SHA-256: a3da3410010af8c9d19ea3bc2f0227394d8f5dc3c2564f7a63c9ea409008d3b7