Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37eb53deb8f4528a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 10:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 67e60ce63096f2ceb4253cf0cf45443e SHA-1: a201dbe1dd71f5f866fe84df0c9bfe80471f5011 SHA-256: 37eb53deb8f4528a1459834594d1591ef082e979cd3da7ca2bba19436dda95a4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. One of the primary URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=parabola+worksheet+pdf+kuta', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing its role in directing users to potentially harmful content. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to camouflage the malicious redirector among seemingly benign educational materials.

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=parabola+worksheet+pdf+kuta In PDF document text
    • http://files.ninigretpartners.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871433/rodivugaxinizir-belaralonivet-roveripozelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dididothat.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871912/6774988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dreamscapesiberians.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/pifazope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jajiti.healingmission.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873995/lexiri_doxog_debaw.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/1/0431/1449/6161/files/present_simple_present_continuous_exercises_perfect_english_grammar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3728/5797/files/96101017771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8081/8581/files/77671309358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/urban_agriculture_in_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2926/4546/files/piwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5717/6986/files/ak_photos_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2955/3575/files/favefibavesoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5179/5107/files/74835768404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0239/4786/files/backup_android_to_sd_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6845/files/quote_template_for_translation_services.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0528/8352/files/xepilifitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5920/7592/files/kegetopoja.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_off000063af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63AF 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 7a38615aafd88560955dd381046e250396834bd064a376d1b6f749c0ccc93b4b
font_01_sfnt_off00007620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7620 14056 bytes
SHA-256: 3019079358a3d1b8f6d8308401f0b63fa10ce63a9d65ba6762f5a240b131ede8