Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23d53b5d081f84b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 06:28:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ca07bf316496fbd93d58e1ddd3dae84 SHA-1: de0669420d495743811fbc0282f0efd248d13fc6 SHA-256: 23d53b5d081f84b58ca42f9347abb2976d82307ec34c6ff5deb2c48efa913e75
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site disguised as a search result for a book. The presence of numerous links and the redirector strongly indicate a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt.

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/wb?keyword=microbiology%20book%20cp%20baveja%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.renaissancevitality.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380292/2085208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimexeda.wimfoxvalley.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740580/31e04253a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iloveacorns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874612/faxifijamuderi.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/1/0432/2436/7266/files/luporanawagesifujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0755/8310/files/97040730861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5344/8358/files/senazopasunakon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9554/4228/files/lottery_program_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7555/9829/files/92240175369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6090/1528/files/ultimate_spider_man_comic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/lcm_of_8_and_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/41531406471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1800/2340/files/sojujofibezazebikejuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/lezevimuxofijupirixik.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4219 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 7891cc60c8bd9039fba471eae6db71597ab7000e80bf3a35de60bc7e122de6d9
font_01_sfnt_off00005546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5546 9940 bytes
SHA-256: e2e18caae638dc107e94450404064ad7fedc10533dbc7d2520524d986886e921
font_02_sfnt_off0000776e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x776E 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6

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