Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2351573834454409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2020-07-31 05:45:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a88d0fea2ae6bf18cec166cde46cee76 SHA-1: 358f993af2da6d3b90ef7b6d40d07936ad6834a5 SHA-256: 2351573834454409f45cf7b91b65e513fcf8918f1d923037c5940b38fe72e3ce
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=calendar+2020+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, but no executable scripts were extracted. The primary attack pattern appears to be leveraging a large number of links to potentially lure users to malicious sites or for SEO manipulation.

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=calendar+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dfwbash.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302824/sagam_vukutokipeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.d3boardofcontrol.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682768/315963e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.y-zedu.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453268/napomep-fivibemuwuxivab-xizubaxoses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.learningwellteachersonline.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814136/8dc74f86e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zenwich.us/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681144/vutivifonugozu.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/1/0430/4112/8601/files/vabusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/7810846056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9500/7137/files/74331560875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37357510366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7054/6335/files/natufijemirolegejolakemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9232/9116/files/dujojitekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5149/1233/files/4582704034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6498/3703/files/25240000146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4570/7166/files/68096145683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/kedazujunifobikesewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5083/5876/files/24507152807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0870/files/rotor.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_off0000dc3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC3C 4704 bytes
SHA-256: a4e196415d066ce3f9b34b506e95cecae746a45fb30f4f2fc920a712d3b3893a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC38 10336 bytes
SHA-256: a2106880312bc73ba8bdc4b989ea605da7c5030e91dd2a6b880cfa523045f336