Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dfdae4146cc778b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:21:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 599e81c79fe809fb64af6071a8e4c618 SHA-1: 4c7e039f46e2376ae3296270b5b402cceb0e8f31 SHA-256: 2dfdae4146cc778b32ac8910e0becff4f3a03ff5dd0d9bddba8c2b358d8f1f04
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=shakespeare+sonnet+73+analysis+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, with a significant portion hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity under the guise of providing analysis documents. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=shakespeare+sonnet+73+analysis+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pcolaaphrodite.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164012/komenezovuwulu_savaberupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.razortattoos.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874652/3562925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.valeriesplayhouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406403/rilavapijijepapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.iaphilosophicalanthropology.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384636/kipiboj.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/1/0435/2881/4741/files/bakakuwafafobiwolodoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1174/3639/files/permanent_retirement_oblivion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8176/files/giwixijojavabutomipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4630/4920/files/30053170614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3963/8179/files/lirojokofojitegugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7373/1741/files/tokyo_subway_map_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9121/3988/files/85523921225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4586/3067/files/99731156664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0937/4365/files/wikixukero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3291/9720/files/beethoven_symphony_5_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kubogofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8911/6836/files/pemigebeseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74098669839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3765/4178/files/meaning_of_teaching_strategies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/xizadibotomu.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_off0000668f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x668F 5644 bytes
SHA-256: e54bf9201584a07fdafa113f54d5504c617ee7226dc4dac4302e8b26c62f715c
font_01_sfnt_off000079d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79D3 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 019273d6a83aa100f6f0f8ea7ce110bb1bb9676f6e6099e2f415025cbdff172d