Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20cd5af9a33298d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 234d781c7d92d0cf19f4068a742ba983 SHA-1: b58846ccdb3f16d941d7ca751197c88026e7e473 SHA-256: 20cd5af9a33298d85587324f5eaff701d463c1d52be427bdf6ab5f50fbf47ad8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bowmasters+2.+12.+5+mod+apk'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same malicious URL and mentions a software name ('bowmasters 2. 12. 5 mod apk'), suggesting a lure for a fake download. The presence of multiple external links, including the malicious redirector, indicates an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful content.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=bowmasters+2.+12.+5+mod+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.shineeventdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453907/8440978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dysonundergraduatecouncil.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695830/3644375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ilhipp.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454556/kavofawasimuw_zujenikiw_lepubebonuzed_niwad.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/1/0433/8260/3927/files/media_query_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6509/6857/files/cervical_spine_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0965/4440/files/anestesia_local_y_regional.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1574/8253/files/zolemiziganiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0604/2023/files/how_to_uninstall_directx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4420/8789/files/20720374647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3382/9277/files/44591572016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2631/7473/files/gopakuxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0803/1893/files/possessive_nouns_worksheet_5th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30106301206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/rejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1795/9586/files/armadura_de_dios_para_nios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6133/0598/files/fizzbuzz_solution_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4921/2311/files/razikenajebato.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_off000067d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67D4 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 899099c5b96dc9527a891d7480f6a739034cb58180cc43fb419dab64e32701c9
font_01_sfnt_off00007af8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF8 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 584fc360fae8bd175b60a9b11b4cf5571caf2e10f885c183a5411d850242e0bc