Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4325a9173cf9cee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4d539ca5e79c82b442f02deda8e2e5fe SHA-1: c43d3eb60e3cd2f7f41a5aa6e85e6006064f31f6 SHA-256: 4325a9173cf9cee9abbbff1684a90365a7e6ea0992500b3889b38a16baa74592
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Bsc economics books pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bsc+economics+books+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs suggests an attempt to host malicious content on seemingly benign platforms.

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=bsc+economics+books+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thismarketingspace.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/vixomatavufuvaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.briannaholt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406365/bumitamedami-sukilebi-ponojuzorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lifewellnessnutrtion.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438059/7599368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashleybazer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483009/623530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rileza.jongunnfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/loraz-tekumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2528/5798/files/66396417492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5132/6371/files/xuwexixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2834/9079/files/mexidaridunexojivovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/varubifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8635/5357/files/tragic_kingdom_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9621/0594/files/90369349714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2008/2590/files/gubitalewavezelegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2469/files/35835967405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4657/files/74909413877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1659/3312/files/vibufiwozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6158/2741/files/aktiv_passiv_englisch_bungen_mit_lsungen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2017/1936/files/62941309813.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CEE 4924 bytes
SHA-256: 00dcb2e00ba812d911e5344c4c39339432dcf852728dd676ba2e9db38f9eba4a
font_01_sfnt_off00007d81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D81 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 824c946267cfd058e05153640278ca64e00cedafdffa933b86b5563113aa876c
font_02_sfnt_off0000a112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA112 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f