Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e3a4b1c213ceaf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 16:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ec71b6726b4270bffc2d172dd22fa170 SHA-1: 7daaf31cf11bcda90385ee3eb504045e05417190 SHA-256: 5e3a4b1c213ceaf010cc81217743630c10af27ae6616c4c86b73275fc11a87b5
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on Shopify. The primary lure appears to be a link to a game, which redirects through `ttraff.ru/pify` to a malicious URL. This infrastructure is indicative of a phishing or scam campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The presence of a PHP webshell heuristic suggests potential for further malicious activity if the redirected site is compromised.

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.
  • PHP webshell / backdoor source high WEBSHELL_PHP
    The file contains PHP server-side code with the signature of a webshell/backdoor (request input fed to a command/code-exec sink). A webshell takes attacker input from an HTTP request and runs commands/code on the server. Flagged as a malicious hacktool artifact even when carried inside a document or archive — the code does not execute from the carrier, but the file is a webshell.
  • 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=bubble+trouble+3+game In PDF document text
    • http://files.wisdomoftheages.biz/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398253/7070521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexazoxuf.fanfareprints.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740249/4652075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.idontknowwhatimdoing.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775220/muzavurekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penizili.robicheauxart.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/7204243.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/72438278193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3234/4736/files/HTTP_UPLOADSNACK._COM_RCCLN3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8453/0343/files/this_egg_shines_in_the_moonlight.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6521/2066/files/market_analysis_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3724/5085/files/96543792181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4622/files/90476913613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0721/2694/files/xarazibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8010/5630/files/bank_branch_manager_job_description.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8118/6971/files/dish_tv_guide_fox_news.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9316/4181/files/ledudimafurufidenivobupo.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_off00005196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5196 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 5d14f642ca33fc4c6353cd486a359bd47d07629e04214ad47422d67f37b87d4a
font_01_sfnt_off00006321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6321 10264 bytes
SHA-256: ab6c10744b8b0f12095e4b37984483079cc7c7cd89dcaa3466d7742bb95787f1