Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 491da13875de88f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-17 16:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ee159dc11e70f2ced596f9eb96ea9fa SHA-1: 6b45b7a29dd7efdbfbf3f5d0df79e4115c66916e SHA-256: 491da13875de88f014bf4cdd74a459e4621bd4de241bf445c04345ecc584f23b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicate a pattern of linking to external, potentially harmful content. The presence of a 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' heuristic suggests that the document may also contain instructions for executing commands, possibly to download or run further payloads. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=calendar+format+google+sheets.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=calendar+format+google+sheets In PDF document text
    • http://jegewof.garlandsullivandesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069766/0329d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alanbirtwistle.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383664/werox_xapedewero_bemidituziv_zurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.see-ff.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379990/ff2cda40f1f02a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.taichikungfuacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379510/8fd24c8f89f.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/1/0430/7202/8823/files/33037215825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9466/1538/files/58363211941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3305/9737/files/divina_commedia_con_note.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6982/4407/files/simple_present_and_past_tense_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6224/8095/files/cbse_computer_science_syllabus_for_class_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8841/8718/files/66914388630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0935/9520/files/powershell_ftps_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3342/0199/files/82146575275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7298/8071/files/8245645466.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9135/1969/files/42907588563.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6396 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 87ce49779c61421f3408a9a680c8f14bfe8ade49ec19377b83b83f75c0eea8e3
font_01_sfnt_off00007532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7532 10408 bytes
SHA-256: dcce59495c1a95fe35792fcf65efacea5f8c0ee483ce44562e66150f8e240d65