Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44a7c09316e7d428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 13:08:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cf85412524d06f4361641f9d25181d2f SHA-1: 05e9cdeb6276780d2a10cbe1bc252bdd42a24f25 SHA-256: 44a7c09316e7d4284ad6d2d8146d4c9a983bb0e31f47924b8b3fffeaf3f8b435
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.ru) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a '3rd grade math review packet pdf' lure, combined with links to Shopify-hosted PDFs. This indicates a likely SEO poisoning or link farm attack designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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=3rd+grade+math+review+packet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hridiancenter.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606275/zenajolegefaxanul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.totsandtumblers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163736/pepokonisenabunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emilyjaneart.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383444/witimusikeduvugixoga.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/1/0429/7113/6154/files/vefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7697/5768/files/gevuguropalorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2960/files/gekevasavokagobawetatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1061/1605/files/90884863656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1753/4629/files/tumunelevipakesipimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9360/5014/files/mathematical_physics_by_hk_das.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9557/9029/files/bible_in_urdu_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6827/7415/files/rujotojonekalaxafowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5860/9819/files/96631789991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7679/4021/files/muvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1110/5191/files/xisexubapiwutunaxalixosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1705/0008/files/fidowopisiwubogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5943/6968/files/sudazarezepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6318/9405/files/how_computers_work.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2533/8265/files/software_engineer_cv.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
🗂 Part of campaign: emilyjaneart.co.uk 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000674b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x674B 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd0ee16cc7943cb33ea9344b52731f04d1755da38b08cfc96140f96b26fde0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000791b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x791B 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 5e36d103216c20a4d990530e190c1eab692da1441f75592891bb781143a2f789
font_02_sfnt_off00009ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CCF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2