Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4558ae800e051865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 23:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c382db1d5d2353d8b432239f4f3dfc06 SHA-1: f14848f4c297dc1ebb9c5e307a174db074b79228 SHA-256: 4558ae800e0518652c55145cd6379c6533977d25e2be60a84d91750961b57ba0
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure related to invoices and payment, indicated by the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic. It embeds multiple external links, with one identified as a malicious redirector ('PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK') pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=credit+note+against+invoice+template'. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic further suggests a large number of outbound links, many hosted on Shopify, potentially for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=credit+note+against+invoice+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.compassionatelife.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070149/keputokodubavemit.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/1/0433/5733/9816/files/92907545356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7979/8679/files/the_third_jesus_deepak_chopra_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8056/4392/files/90212448337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2964/2911/files/saxolenixawatoxugaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3667/2162/files/ignou_ma_public_administration_disaster_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6426/1797/files/bathukamma_patalu_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9853/0201/files/analytical_mechanics_of_gears.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/3765/1107/files/comma_practice_worksheet_middle_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1458/6521/files/2597210545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/6243/8560/files/desktop_support_resume_template.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF5 5356 bytes
SHA-256: 523cad7d32b5e7159e271b681ba7b7dfc2ac1d1eef8c4befdcb1ce8d82efbaf7
font_01_sfnt_off00007d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D23 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 0cce30635e626996a0fb034967172583b7784e86851deeee5af8c390bf547586

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