Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29aeb9dec24de642…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 029b0961f2d6f5865ebdef56b03bbadd SHA-1: 2db714887d6e1926bcd921f334dfbf2672ded428 SHA-256: 29aeb9dec24de642436d285a8644af32cb669bf67291d4c15410cd24a68bf918
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a lure related to 'learning of ms excel pdf'. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=learning%20of%20ms%20excel%20pdf, which is likely used for redirection. The presence of a large PDF link farm on Shopify domains, alongside other unknown URLs, indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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=learning%20of%20ms%20excel%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sonoranshadows.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164152/wupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lonestarrxassistance.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710783/renuvebuv_sobuwiwi_vulorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.absolute-doors.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606526/zagodigedolesofala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jillianabrownphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738569/3436395.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/1/0439/7305/0526/files/86951047704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9481/7445/files/98898771802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2852/7779/files/93873850831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4352/0666/files/19223830524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1492/1114/files/52841642628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3401/0015/files/fraction_to_decimal_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9861/2636/files/bpsc_64_answer_key_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0610/files/toletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9195/5607/files/bible_verse_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3057/2190/files/historia_del_cartel_en_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/recette_de_cuisine_algrienne_gratuit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4438/0578/files/lubeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0714/8185/files/aeonair_dehumidifier_manual.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_off00005370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5370 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 38e11089b2d931d4651a31a797941288275ec4a7ba80d310619107ba23997a5d
font_01_sfnt_off00006613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6613 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 0c918cb1acd96cd4f890970d960ad5e8a0629022bdf8b138c18bd955f6946d89