Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4449a56cfb4e86b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 16:21:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4938c43a07a817a4bb93b12bd90993f8 SHA-1: 2e5fc1375562400bfebab357cee63abad0d9f959 SHA-256: 4449a56cfb4e86b9ad17fcd57bdfde1913c41236d1a577b827a48ecea743e82d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to hide malicious URLs. One of the primary URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=nfl+preseason+2020+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to lure users to malicious content. 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=nfl+preseason+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mayoandsonconstruction.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455141/mituwu_wizufusevasej_zunasoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.classicalmusictoday.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437878/retip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivogag.immanuel-on-the-hill.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776088/gexozuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dipisi.dad2atria.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408027/riritugokonukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolatux.wackenbergs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454526/diwozuwojixegigosiv.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/1/0428/8780/7129/files/93152034746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9434/files/3612535262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9671/7992/files/62117607287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5063/0296/files/32402177035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0105/2310/files/anatomy_and_physiology_of_esophagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2492/4319/files/kakugikupoxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9330/3204/files/fudajusofujokonuxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5095/7974/files/carbonato_de_magnesio_propiedades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3455/7088/files/nenapuzakituga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1568/3744/files/72692108063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8049/8852/files/faxaxusikajedaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8368/5270/files/zapumudatelumugelesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4669/0203/files/18980330417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lugapib.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_off00006786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6786 5276 bytes
SHA-256: d18d25b020e090607cc82ba12610cdf3e8c0d064004c0c39bcf2d0a8d24a6230
font_01_sfnt_off00007983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7983 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 7cd52df55db716677f072bc34e1e21e608dbe5080bd9375d7d2be79537c11e43