Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48c23ea83514a34f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:33:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 652955c840177fa0211b767e76b6e4b9 SHA-1: c097fbf664bde80a0f8fef21e2a44654052215b4 SHA-256: 48c23ea83514a34fb2aba43d04c04c0a86df58923537e81905f54ce0c7dc8fd1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ap+calculus+limit+worksheet+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains similar text, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm and the identified malicious redirector strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

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=ap+calculus+limit+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.hollypham.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070754/vuramutupotefupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashleycarruthers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453610/4cf5eeca7f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.youdesignleather.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682585/masebut_gawotumobavo_sivavule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoxefu.familypracticecenterofnewtown.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/joviwu-mikuj-mojuvedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ed2edtutoring.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/fazalokepalotejaf.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/1/0440/5110/3894/files/random_number_javascript.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5322/files/sipigamaludufuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4115/2421/files/sudojipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6209/1163/files/zejozoguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9918/1476/files/hindu_boy_name_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0799/1208/files/46901364630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7389/6615/files/os_axiomas_de_zurique_completo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5153/2963/files/wipakozukepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9758/7861/files/actos_de_comercio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9392/3742/files/sopenonawujufaputibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dutevitijenunolekegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2743/files/bifalaxuxoruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9488/2984/files/jepejimozuretetewokabisex.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_off00004db9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DB9 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 21b83e1bdc1587f557a1d3821f5684a93c76f8416ccd432f1c0d4f0afe930e03
font_01_sfnt_off00006075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6075 9948 bytes
SHA-256: d3310b971ef3d3c665f468ed0602bda15a39052a4f5680c6874a6a9ac1e94f0e