Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54d5dcec76e41c46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 11:16:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d1df71333689e3877288a03e5ba5e115 SHA-1: af6b9710c2972c9e23f0986c5cbe046b9b23ad93 SHA-256: 54d5dcec76e41c46093fd81212403ea05c317ee6c2bc06e217b59599c513888b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which are SEO-optimized and point to redirectors like 'ttraff.ru'. These links are designed to lure users into downloading further malicious content, disguised as a free grimorie. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of multiple PDF link farms suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malware.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=el+aprendiz+de+brujo+grimorio+pdf+gratis In PDF document text
    • http://files.marriagecelebranthilaryvaneldik.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483955/bolizorofo-nixawuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dorxiesbrowsandlashes.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071137/7801842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hceaproud.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453065/178080.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/1/0433/9482/6405/files/c_getline_delimiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8693/0329/files/14228443714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9567/0432/files/wolofamesivuxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1571/6519/files/mabekula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8223/4521/files/40281063988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3248/6823/files/10533252429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2266/3331/files/49477895397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/98223768302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1204107997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wawufomujemozinabewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4470/9276/files/nuzixupozasifulowixalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8601/8712/files/boyce_differential_equations_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5969/8077/files/lonavixojulopitumumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5799/5160/files/88438581930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7959/8229/files/70500627622.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_off00004559.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4559 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 33858ab2118c713780843ccce6d1ae13f61d92356e1437fbcf127cdaa99c1400
font_01_sfnt_off0000584e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x584E 9420 bytes
SHA-256: 625ccc9ecca372abd14cc91c06cdc4bdb967e231d5b9b26b9d56f10ecc72d5eb