Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82998dd567517ff5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 04:33:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7ba392b2cc750e5fb68564de6b14818e SHA-1: d24b2012703dbf52138117ac3b720e598d0b2aca SHA-256: 82998dd567517ff5cf92c26e3436f42c65232acfb19037ac7c15b9ebbe386574
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=jigsaw+reading+activities+worksheets`. This suggests a link farm or phishing lure, aiming to redirect users to potentially malicious content under the guise of free downloads. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=jigsaw+reading+activities+worksheets In PDF document text
    • http://files.rainbowjewelryshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383318/50e36b15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazibo.eastcoastcakeco.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/cb07c8a85f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kasl.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739621/b22886d44c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisen.glennmehrbach.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/7006303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rataxox.theredpillrenegade.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483167/7621396.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/1/0438/2192/4514/files/pdf_to_word_ocr_windows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2309/8279/files/tapujugagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7403/5607/files/levogimulatejugezapizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8048/9891/files/84535055952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botudurodakokebavexosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4309/3670/files/budaya_yogyakarta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1642/files/how_to_change_mac_address_on_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66689816557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9327/0429/files/gifomubilisalunodewoxidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0577/1927/files/66971558279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/5339/6647/files/50_examples_of_collective_nouns.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4580/files/lewavugerowogesetudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9121/3988/files/anno_domini_1257_guide_fr.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_off00006970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6970 5376 bytes
SHA-256: f1fe5e2f9ff24747eeb6ae09b90313fe51e8e888eb7e156224284b09900b294e
font_01_sfnt_off00007bc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC4 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 7a81287cc4066c7fe086b1b9123a4699e16ff087e3fc3d809e28038c6a822c65