Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 543970285271475c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 06:52:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: addddad83a59ec25f2accd2bf4092304 SHA-1: a54421225813ce7557853383b3c6ef265343caca SHA-256: 543970285271475c76793d47dbfada3a9b9876a7c5569e0519ca00d4d50667fa
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=important+days+list+pdf'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of many external PDF links, including benign ones on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve SEO for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link farm heuristic strongly indicate a social engineering attack.

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=important+days+list+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.centralillinoiscelts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740480/pizevonugejol_manorixowila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.41streetauto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776775/jugaji-zizezajif-vominolojesetog-pivarolofipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riguj.lancercurtis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379578/fe04244943b36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keferix.poplarridgecommunitycenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873951/logug_wanumiragamid_kexodewamofini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrstuckeysclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776841/4143467.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/1/0438/4181/4693/files/watermark_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2675/0357/files/kujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5743/1199/files/python_language_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8452/8281/files/procalcitonina_pediatria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9881/6150/files/172972088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2287/5797/files/mapred-_site._xml.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2845/4298/files/felumitowesujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8328/4136/files/90043915158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/21268140467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7660/files/cursive_writing_capital_and_small_letters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3945/7431/files/bovute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/zawazonobidabilukuvinipa.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7225 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 4eba187539300ea5bd0b620012e2a90cb4824ff56168619ce4af5e790c6d3361
font_01_sfnt_off000083d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83D9 9964 bytes
SHA-256: 20bcf9c6131accb4d6f04af5247d79c3d8874627ef8e43196bd1a71b6e8f4a3a