Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 228af5a8ec0f4311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:29:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6fdd6ed457474dba9f5b36eb562c9bba SHA-1: da62d671f92b1283e916e865068335d6efb9f3fe SHA-256: 228af5a8ec0f4311983d41dc94fb95328ebbaf430453893fc2b010854b178692
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it contains links to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic fired, suggesting a large number of embedded external links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=o+que+%25C3%25A9+cultura+popular+editora+brasiliense+pdf, which is likely used for redirection to further malicious content. The document body contains garbled text and references to wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it may have been generated programmatically to host these links.

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=o+que+%25C3%25A9+cultura+popular+editora+brasiliense+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.seattlecarpetcareandrestoration.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739910/tawetiwitesivamakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.conservationoffineart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453902/pubilemopiw-poluz-pebejidoxivipej-novad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.milanfirst.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379085/4220724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spice-grind.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453354/sisiluxedifoboxuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.taketimeforyourselfmassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856567/0ce71ee.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/1/0429/6127/2983/files/77886554917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3086/3259/files/pikilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6240/1947/files/79416915788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7525/5972/files/kitchen_furniture_design_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/88927148832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1603/6249/files/wopajibekepudozafujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2259/7800/files/tutorial_beamer_latex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4243/0362/files/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems_worksheets_5th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1653/3654/files/mukatisotuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7226/6138/files/40725528556.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_off00005dd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DD9 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 8af041c93445e71c23e08c8daaf6410286fbc66e39f0fa0b7016ab64c6738b91
font_01_sfnt_off00007095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7095 11952 bytes
SHA-256: cc6e853e2d2a9a441ada17f8951324978715118912f58dc562ce9c8e1e2b5a54