Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35352ecdc1d1b5e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:12:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 892ce8f9d8cd46ef72d138c3e98d2072 SHA-1: ca01a66d226a50d2da1f9b755c9014646b95ec48 SHA-256: 35352ecdc1d1b5e837672592344ce71e5f2c36f1f1432453c716c556be6e8902
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=toefl+actual+test+reading+pdf`. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites under the guise of providing TOEFL test preparation materials. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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=toefl+actual+test+reading+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.quiethouseediting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438211/efb43ff9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thelischka.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856306/8ef0a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.5ivecoffee.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682905/bidenidusekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chiminisiberians.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871912/3723905.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/1/0429/4960/7590/files/3103174697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0413/3525/files/xirawedupekizodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6903/1078/files/38264391233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4343/8244/files/acting_out_culture_readings_for_critical_inquiry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7546/0517/files/13506773068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23281911610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3911/3895/files/kofozipuvabulubulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0189/4296/files/le_tissu_cartilagineux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2344/5666/files/autismo_causas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2738/1924/files/ap_intermediate_exam_time_table_2020_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/66698469181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0052/8033/files/jatag.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

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67E8 3080 bytes
SHA-256: 903161082aab6322ab1b499c57ccfb2fd0bee263f4f8e9d1d4b846ff0b19b9e7
font_01_sfnt_off00007304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7304 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 4db86dc77ba8c9203cef7d8022fb0d1c0a5c77106f8b14985e58abdfb83d04ea
font_02_sfnt_off00008503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8503 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 122436c4a3a8b77e6390074fa6ea9f2ca64350947046c129ed716e3af3d20929
font_03_sfnt_off0000a98d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA98D 16144 bytes
SHA-256: f0a8b786da721c7415a59d91fbce3b20bbb98ea32e48857ac1ff22d53b00ec29