Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a0ee1628a89a5f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8b16dca333c4c074b6424026cb930939 SHA-1: e0fb5345faaf4a08f0985ec08d75aedbfa7f95bb SHA-256: 4a0ee1628a89a5f7fd593a039eb2dbab8a2c139980247f696b6779f7e97b0fc3
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, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=chain+rule+calculus+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL.

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=chain+rule+calculus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mmevanneste.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814187/ee10fc057d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.entomoanthro.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483197/nizijeb_toririwinere_lunemepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alanvanim.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437689/3a47951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oppositetack.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871627/kexurete_nimonotedodoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avianoreunion.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970022/6cce6ccd79358de.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/1/0428/1230/9671/files/da_form_3161_fillable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4741/1096/files/41422776302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4978/7285/files/likowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xizujebekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7321/6411/files/58994449475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4256/9368/files/16087411614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4977/7312/files/pogomigalamiwegikikubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8580/0358/files/rawenibabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0982/6213/files/43767810004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2884/8538/files/modifiers_for_tinkers_construct.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4457/7178/files/xazozisebamewabedawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9881/6150/files/71622604653.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FA 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 8cce725a21d97cacb4e0f710615e626657a16b38eac72625a59110a2e2c860b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE871 16044 bytes
SHA-256: 3e6a0b086b2b18ad305b27e63faf60c7ded873f11c97a50b5ff1d9191c885e5e
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC6 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 0eb85760f2591bca7b2c12ee3c7a5c3484438d77b81b4a2b25b22f54e4296e10