Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e54403b54106e70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 18:26:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5e2e86720b3cff7fa28f8880ee4f4cb0 SHA-1: 535c018d34372efbbb5606543c7a5df7bced54a1 SHA-256: 2e54403b54106e70038478421e8c8d6caf241eaeefbd637283881f4157a8fe74
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive lure related to 'English grammar pdf in odia' and includes a mass of external links, many hosted on Shopify, forming a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=english+grammar+pdf+in+odia', is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a visual download button further supports the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=english+grammar+pdf+in+odia In PDF document text
    • http://files.courseyfamilyfarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695620/bizinomure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wildlifetreasure.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452841/gafutote-zenukato-xomixugijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goblinbabymovie.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775922/f8b7739e8bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kununurramarkets.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856844/a074ed604a00fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mscott.info/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969297/kikokenu.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/1/0437/2040/9256/files/pulobega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3889/1419/files/how_to_become_a_good_motivational_speaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1880/5657/files/fojozoponuvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1267/5995/files/fabofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1703/6198/files/30375268875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7454/1981/files/apache_tomcat_server_administration_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2063/8632/files/wujozemeketavedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4253/7629/files/nebifuwovezusorefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3845/7501/files/88473214696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6598/3655/files/92351291734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6764/5857/files/wanufuzebamesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9352/4634/files/chalazion_traitement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3077/3913/files/wozepokebaviweke.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_off0000510c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x510C 5412 bytes
SHA-256: e67edddbfff09e5fd80b62a3bb681f8627ec6c430b730f3311734232a7830d95
font_01_sfnt_off00006343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6343 10520 bytes
SHA-256: f78513211a5efd48da47fb533b93917f18d6e4766d2872c50b2098661514ae71