Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4522b70a29c1786c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ab1d2050dcaaffe5a2831c753d7a1e8 SHA-1: 9b63893e9c32f72dcc2e8d16fa93fb540cb6a9b8 SHA-256: 4522b70a29c1786c546b0385f32a3790e7760c2657055d499144f22791104602
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious content. One critical heuristic flagged a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/pify. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links, including a link farm targeting Shopify domains, suggests a campaign focused on traffic generation or potentially distributing further payloads. The document body contains garbled text and URLs, reinforcing the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=hashar+song+status In PDF document text
    • http://files.thebeautybarnuk.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856134/wafedukasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosis.tourtrax.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969744/tagopipanitoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notamov.hornywheelers.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070993/jisidavatesosuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sainttheresaattleboro.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/sitigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tcccmi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405948/0e54f69e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0736/9639/files/free_12x24_shed_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9434/3841/files/mind_body_relationship_in_health_psychology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0219/files/nuduvabewenalabukeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1350/5185/files/makin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1778/9862/files/lapodojewazogimujopexaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5095/1066/files/77405594445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0989/2767/files/ramomorewemejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6081/2190/files/aashto_lrfd_bridge_design_specifications_download.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000047e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47E3 4876 bytes
SHA-256: fdcde5f105f8dde3dbdb912ef7272e40bc54cb6c441c30ef506dc8c1fd5301a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000586f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x586F 2956 bytes
SHA-256: 07e141ca5c9ae483240f79d91c998e7dea0d3838d1616a94d6029cfe6948c89c
font_02_sfnt_off000064d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D3 5680 bytes
SHA-256: a88755f6362ca0dee29195f2253d2465f2964ce90137d3fc181c592fafa91d1b
font_03_sfnt_off000074c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74C8 9032 bytes
SHA-256: d0211c37699b64380b170bfa275385cfa4912c6a95c293ad9009ee24b04c951a
font_04_sfnt_off000093f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93F7 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 0216150ac0e5ade23b072752459620ec704bdac01526bfbadd96d51f96873ef3