Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62a94e13d8ffd22c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 03:29:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: abe2c108a819b4e497086da2c51a0601 SHA-1: dcdb98562c7e774c7c3791cc737ec34ccc0c67dd SHA-256: 62a94e13d8ffd22c670eddd5bbb2e262abe2969b97b99514eae622602c6ec1eb
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to mimic legitimate content. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=contemporary+approaches+to+leadership+pdf, is flagged as malicious. This suggests a phishing or scam campaign aiming to redirect users to potentially harmful sites under the guise of offering leadership resources.

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=contemporary+approaches+to+leadership+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jeremybroussardlpc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739039/8abf35c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runugebe.cherrycityfarms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740316/5924651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studiofiza.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969389/nexozizi_rakadorogem_tatexozegegoz.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/1/0433/4845/9670/files/vemerezowusivufoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0671/3253/files/o_que__energia_renovavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3301/0082/files/14719544964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8914/9608/files/agricultural_marketing_functions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3292/6616/files/worarisolezuwisanefure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9177/8965/files/towotatogirasesuxemawuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0227/3703/files/kazujojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8694/5187/files/80399640526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8515/1897/files/marezewijezefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7446/2631/files/22462585194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2572/6625/files/wodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/weight_training_routines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0203/5351/files/42196979780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5851/1510/files/40k_8th_edition_daemons_codex.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000698d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x698D 5404 bytes
SHA-256: abeefc311ef13b7afae0fd26edf02125aa09fb646f145200400c89f471705ee2
font_01_sfnt_off00007bc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC3 10456 bytes
SHA-256: b2a263f9875d830f8ff51f81c350103a040781eba5323f6fb8c94f74da461bf1

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