Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22628bf92ddafca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 08:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 631493071111de3a4236c54e275aa835 SHA-1: 06755afc18cdb0b463211149a3a84b8804ecb4d6 SHA-256: 22628bf92ddafca677f5ec4687f199691ced1bee85e1465b3b8087e82b05572b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic indicates a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=d%2526+d+urchin+background'. Another critical heuristic flags the document as a PDF SEO link farm, containing 30 external PDF links, with a dominant host of 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain the URLs, suggesting the primary intent is to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

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=d%2526+d+urchin+background In PDF document text
    • http://files.nicaraguaspanishlanguage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437671/tanogivejupufakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.londonafrost.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775357/zimabegozajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamiji.thebotanyscholar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438137/pejir-kewanupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.youthvoicesandiego.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406736/9483354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.panama-yachting-services.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695491/c93f9e8a0d3.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/1/0432/1070/3010/files/7291765107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5366/1858/files/foduvagojizagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1554/4737/files/vudusewefesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3421/2509/files/75988836431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5107/3174/files/zevavejedanamonukogisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0872/1045/files/toxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3593/5388/files/service_communication_failure_pnkbstra._ex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6259/9586/files/68099217202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/15897713771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7003/7917/files/rafalenejefojemogabiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6949/7753/files/19154940435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6274/7548/files/lekijiz.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000058ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58EA 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 2c9ac78d7d5e397b5777cd5fa0e55748b4e4c949be5e5376ec37660d69ba0f92
font_01_sfnt_off000069ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69BA 4156 bytes
SHA-256: d46272a35c141788e45a942f60d3ac75eba256168db5716376ff56f0f84bb3df
font_02_sfnt_off000077e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E8 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 974fb3d4578a869db3147d9033e16b9b13a8c07d819e7f328331f0328cd7e21c
font_03_sfnt_off00009c0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C0C 16200 bytes
SHA-256: 7427c6bc67859b578149a261544bb1535a5c5cc5499c5bcf465df30433ecb59a