Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d8142d8b5edb063…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 22:21:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2f88ca3d41135b63a3cc1a170db5e0a3 SHA-1: e0ffd085f3b70d1998bc5b3e7c9055edd6fdbc9a SHA-256: 1d8142d8b5edb0635674abe2357d8259fe5b350439cdf44f6a7f48e764889d48
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the link farm strategy suggest an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, possibly for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

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=grievances+of+the+declaration+of+independence+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.perryyoungblood.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775402/ginefiredesi-dekeradev-niwirojazuvagow-dedudur.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/1/0433/7850/7934/files/7292117725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/66527286564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nubizasijimowedemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1348/0354/files/suxivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0432/0154/files/14154772388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0958/6853/files/68053150135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6352/5026/files/49006156283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0103/6443/files/liwigasozoxifajose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8935/3118/files/soduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5341/5576/files/87282503511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3088/8094/files/brazing_and_soldering_nptel.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EB8 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 13142f935ff3922bef81f3d45989bb3d0cc03f61a7b33ff3934d1221b67022ed
font_01_sfnt_off00006179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6179 9824 bytes
SHA-256: 4e40d42b7529e90f5037034bada254b0f4d5fa234107e3ceff6f891f984b8ca6

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