Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 501bf0efe2316231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 21:53:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a053fb4e159c72a84a1851cdb384b124 SHA-1: 78fc7d5acfc8aa67f3b76a8f49bd757559c6e09a SHA-256: 501bf0efe2316231e88e1dd7c3baf611048d0fc04824c1841feaf1344bc6056f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=grammar+questions+with+answers+pdf', suggesting a lure to a page offering grammar questions. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=grammar+questions+with+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rialtosports.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874647/159218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lekom.doggiestylezllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/figopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.passagesandpathways.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303041/7920656.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/1/0434/8015/4269/files/24369533738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/28060116143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40545468116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6571/2535/files/61107365008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/bufatabujetunizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0054/2878/files/gebegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8617/5651/files/sort_linked_list_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/lusebarejejogofaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0945/files/68408193474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8865/7049/files/kamiguxigonaboguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8868/2916/files/giwewu.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_off0000669a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x669A 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 246bdad350aeb525cfe799a9a25f47c6ed9ae34e821547cf88ebdc3e8c81022f
font_01_sfnt_off00007936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7936 10684 bytes
SHA-256: a64082db6e8407b2a3bba7b5f4624537aa259f63c3553d1ea55f79deb1de93b5

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