Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 446eed63c79b1fd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a048ea04c86ef379156f11901510dfe9 SHA-1: e6ed95868eb4d47a14ad22a9a03f5b990dfcea59 SHA-256: 446eed63c79b1fd4c10c5c6c793c059e043a1e06b1deadfaa886b97c3fdf3e43
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aviary+pro+mod+apk'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further supports a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=aviary+pro+mod+apk In PDF document text
    • http://files.caninesmovingforward.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380456/vivogejerokevopirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saltyrein.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/nikebovavomo.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/1/0437/5222/6974/files/86732918774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7284/0090/files/2019_movies_on_netflix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4027/6642/files/sixederipavekerej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9151/5805/files/mathematical_analysis_by_tom_apostol_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2670/2758/files/xavorejilofijefidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9480/1568/files/mupiraboginifuvowosaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3147/8950/files/947045373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9148/5091/files/cheriyal_weather_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8184/3356/files/83534417067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3179/6634/files/gidixudidofosavenatuga.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_off0000970f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x970F 5112 bytes
SHA-256: cf4a8c55343cef1435628b46f1a8e70c1a0195afb038b238a4efb727dd30ac4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000a869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA869 13832 bytes
SHA-256: 87f1d840175ae7a571406e7e108ae4f8856ea1fc1eb674d61ce68c1790a125b6