Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a5f256625db5ff1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 11:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 486a0fc62ce0351e490c654af6fede02 SHA-1: e379d6c216bb36f2a96adb9f68704fed572417cd SHA-256: 1a5f256625db5ff1ec853536c9bc96f147829e7d742864a7cc60e19a2d7fa8db
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ppap+manual+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the payload.

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=ppap+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.clareslaneycounselling.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874257/8224303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aaaction.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682974/bcf9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.margenachristian.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775639/digomavowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0428/6359/1583/files/square_root_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9453/1493/files/rupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3927/7734/files/96112111287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5584/8355/files/76708687432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8518/5702/files/pekigenebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/pokemon_mmorpg_3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2503/1590/files/fepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5320/3102/files/17735627074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1405/2247/files/hp_officejet_6500_e710n-_z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3622/1351/files/gofijomuruvozinolewuwejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/zobenimesaled.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000838a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838A 1768 bytes
SHA-256: 4fe1f96ba8db5cf35ca47cddaf067669eaebb9c038fc61eabfa1f5836d0fc525
font_01_sfnt_off00008bff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BFF 2864 bytes
SHA-256: 9117bbf316fc2ea3b6e817c786b4239c6e639bc9bbc85041159577d557ec1aa5
font_02_sfnt_off0000962f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x962F 4916 bytes
SHA-256: a9a41c91ef36f3ee61e348ceeef5f20e9a52a26a142a8965eab91f00e70bd7b3
font_03_sfnt_off0000a6dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6DD 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca2198a8a9dfc3842204dd3d6b2cac79bb22d4b9a80908c12dfdbfdb77fd39a