Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d32347bf7c8de88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-07-28 19:46:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7421ad07ba435aff6abbfa366d684194 SHA-1: e660d4ff61dd15a2bb2227503fd9cae24bfc829f SHA-256: 1d32347bf7c8de88bdbb93136d4ab9414f7a02f1acc92b374e7d15237171b8bc
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=have+got+questions+and+short+answers+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'questions and short answers PDF'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, including one hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' further supports a phishing or scam context, likely aiming to direct users to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=have+got+questions+and+short+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.designerstickers.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453024/4b3369851b704b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northwoodsyogaandwellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740138/905cde375635e55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bensvintagevillage.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968994/memazeminage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saoceanpaddlers.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681479/moboxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aldaqah.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636789/garoga-minupopovu-lilurejemi-lezoz.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nuruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/julubado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9451/5614/files/zozojuzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7987/4213/files/pazoluzikuxemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2915/7272/files/xovikipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1618/3205/files/64147817974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7196/3296/files/pavuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/25715512372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4571/6129/files/jakipitawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3619/files/pajusitoxidalalozuniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2440/6935/files/wezeveluvatosekatunubedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7403/5607/files/79495709429.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_off0000be08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE08 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 6d20d5f983e1e44560d28e4b2bf143025a1b3b7c2f81fa3dcca82c82064f8354
font_01_sfnt_off0000d05e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05E 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 04cc75a71cd5a5c124354e31500aa5506c51163ad49d44f7650d3fb9126d5af8