Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23120f14f720cbfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:41:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 277305faceadabf79121069e905d56f0 SHA-1: ec5c2d2a1ad9654d157cf4ed76de7ce6e610f1dc SHA-256: 23120f14f720cbfc0a22caac3818af52989a93b2c6c471e21607ae6c44b5fa7a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to 'Dbrau re exam date sheet 2018 pdf' and includes a call-to-action button. Crucially, it embeds a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dbrau+re+exam+date+sheet+2018+pdf'. The document also features a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. The primary malicious intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure via the embedded link.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=dbrau+re+exam+date+sheet+2018+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.roryswell.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814200/9513990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vocesintimaeartsong.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681826/cd8e15f31cea0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blackburnpointwoods.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398489/2060899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.merrittathletics.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398195/gijofi_nifut_paduziba_vudinudaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.monosdoa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454158/tumabirumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3122/2677/files/so_think_movie_dvd_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7809/6798/files/makalah_akuntansi_keuangan_sektor_publik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0151/0045/files/63536924438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2821/6983/files/arinbjorn_witcher_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/att_virus_protection.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4644/4960/files/honda_mini_trail_50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9122/1923/files/jufarebokenexuzojefexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4182/files/nadoxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7581/4047/files/bivariate_and_multivariate_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9263/files/3042193606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/pufixozepakizubajurore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/nelezewezotikuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3428/0090/files/god_narasimha_pictures.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6359 5976 bytes
SHA-256: aabe690711ff1096bdcfc326bd26b984fb44e22dad65545e60b048c74a0c322f
font_01_sfnt_off00007793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7793 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 8d2fda0f34cd160644073f088f10eaff69c5fcc384b52df726ac1e00b4aafc68
font_02_sfnt_off00009a78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A78 7792 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa646a7d69531a270ee1867c696ea28ee805a8d455c709c9400fe65aa193518