Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d321736487f32cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 19:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2e532f42ca2b940f9c28d6e8f9e8035f SHA-1: 74cf886fe1c3b1ae3acc673149306fd1b9ba4b1d SHA-256: 5d321736487f32cd8c425f5ec54b6e21ef26992cdfe8613587e320368c7d50f6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document acts as a link farm, directing users to a malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=present+perfect+continuous+tense+examples+pdf`. The document's content and embedded links suggest a phishing or scam attempt, leveraging SEO tactics to appear legitimate. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links points to an attempt to distribute further malicious content or lead users to fraudulent sites.

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=present+perfect+continuous+tense+examples+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dmcihomesrealtor.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681560/xanufarenedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://widis.firstpreslivingston.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/donoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.colwynnetballclub.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163856/rafifovuwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jessicaleemanton.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384115/ledugirafunituzufo.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/1/0437/1313/4741/files/toxopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7600/9622/files/banking_practice_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6395/1003/files/90001458029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/lowes_mountain_home_ar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8665/2316/files/xuwijujasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2113/1161/files/gucci_mane_off_the_leash_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7446/2631/files/74179090618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1574/0312/files/11300684547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1796/9570/files/zazesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5083/3822/files/4701966883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0663/1833/files/methodical_deception.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9825/8088/files/sop_apgar_score.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_off00005e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E02 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 62e0ade36cdd6baa75b2d358c801a48eae45492d9fc6e8d425a2cc74fcf84a6a
font_01_sfnt_off00007025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7025 10336 bytes
SHA-256: ee533f79b8943f5ce770bcd763eed3ec0de8a573e4c34d613c46a3f0f179a274