Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52521b5b8cb0516f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 01:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f8b5a1859e36edc31d14fcd4a2e83cbf SHA-1: fc7e317015a36a7585cfba2fb783658b4f8d0f5b SHA-256: 52521b5b8cb0516f7c0068a47088cbefc34b028a306cc553eac60113d8571178
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding a significant number of external links. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=celebrated+chop+waltz+pdf'. The presence of numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of specific user-facing lures.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=celebrated+chop+waltz+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bebela.totnessvintage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/6388323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hoperod.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453907/daxunagiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapefo.jarrellfootball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379179/vumapesixetonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.procleanrexburg.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302718/sopuzedokosoboxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sylvanherskowitz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407080/vufapiposar.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/1/0431/3127/3365/files/xugopekatafixolanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9394/0641/files/wafabopeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8459/files/auxiliares_del_comercio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0987/5873/files/xazizazakiwobowezaxadata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6649/0006/files/kosadedubajekifagupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6548/3172/files/25062536057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1282/4993/files/knowing_the_living_god.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0937/1286/files/gcse_chemistry_structure_and_bonding_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3864/4136/files/tosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0636/9703/files/bascule_rsh_maitre_esclave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8206/files/tisomefiwagefoketit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3552/5282/files/19737126639.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64DD 5504 bytes
SHA-256: d1ba2fb66e7d3d79a54efdd409b7cff50e9a64c6ad1f5ee9472f758ca1bb3dce
font_01_sfnt_off00007831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7831 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 68f447d2bfe707e0c6cf51f715dfc7a1e9e935b155f44308fe2d164d9848ab33
font_02_sfnt_off00008a19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A19 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 2f1f6b9fe5d69ac592bd173ce2cae700df317446608753e9026b0fc6550861b5