Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52641ed04685bb7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 08:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 849e390cd3aaf56bc645b4b5bdb2b236 SHA-1: 7cccc2a713c486f0c81debaa43088e4deaba2091 SHA-256: 52641ed04685bb7efe230ad488b830bee5fd66956a6c4f31d300d6faf362f9ef
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to its structure, which includes a large number of embedded links to external PDF files, characteristic of a link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=rebuild+air+cooled+vw+engines+hp+255+pdf', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body contains garbled text along with the same URL, suggesting a lure or obfuscation attempt. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious activity observed is the redirection via the malicious 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=rebuild+air+cooled+vw+engines+hp+255+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lakewashingtonsaddleclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857916/64e9fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedux.conwytours.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379833/7554b3e571332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.immune-tolerance.fr/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739233/bae3e7a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.blacksheeprugby.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775866/7566f.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/1/0437/1785/3335/files/avi_to_wmv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99914628395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5198/3772/files/pepenirexoxodukafifesadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15501301831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/55880133837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5512/8477/files/butox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2139/3320/files/97137143555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6885/8280/files/63924904684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7230/6843/files/fixorasadipukogukixu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA32F 4416 bytes
SHA-256: 6fdb61d240193fb116c1b0573015fb1ecb1f96ad2228b5a36100810bda13bf83
font_01_sfnt_off0000b297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB297 5972 bytes
SHA-256: 2abd467896e0d6315d9f47e8ae3c05e5fe09d67c56db90c9beda702b2d78657c
font_02_sfnt_off0000c703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC703 12716 bytes
SHA-256: 67a56fbbe69d653d6e7da89f152e08d0f59efb8ac75f3bcff3bc16e792a83542
font_03_sfnt_off0000efe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE9 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 10bdf1da1f14de10963fa7e0db0c3c3b39de0ddf5d1d591acf32bdd77afa173d