Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a1045b97b29a663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 18:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ad147323eee703522746253b1972e795 SHA-1: 8f88d4dc567f0038c8adc643ba7f54997e8a9224 SHA-256: 2a1045b97b29a663f38bb1c7cb00a96f638b77e9c5df2924d06558e123ef135e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text "Paediatric asthma guidelines sign" and the malicious URL. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, many of which are hosted on cdn.shopify.com, with the first listed being a potential lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=paediatric+asthma+guidelines+sign In PDF document text
    • http://files.kiwibirdphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857476/f0a1ef182175e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phithetapsi.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398380/30321eec6337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dns-for-me.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857758/vexix_visaxuge_zopawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laurascreativeattic.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712080/wubud-devub-bimisud-nepoz.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/1/0433/8411/1267/files/merge_two_git_repositories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3549/9418/files/yamaha_command_link_plus_installation_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7224/8222/files/depusexilapugusaviguseziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9581/0455/files/litezigarugotomifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3651/7286/files/10768037470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8973/files/rupexifabamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3169/1421/files/suzafazobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1196/4829/files/ffx_blitzball_leveling_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/fugibopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9617/8849/files/lebemeguvevatitofetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3834/9211/files/the_strain_trilogy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4903/3627/files/bootstrap_template_creator_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7017/6928/files/argosy_property_annual_report_2018.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_off00004d74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D74 5352 bytes
SHA-256: e094d55476f474ac61ffdda82801d7fc4d3e1b8006e86788af2a807e09e81b11
font_01_sfnt_off00005f7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F7C 9932 bytes
SHA-256: 2f1215dae65bdbbd71dc3f7ba4745fc001602ce4fab8acb6f4b7c9c6232a92f9