Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84894738741adae5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 03230d7a6fea375a75ebfa22689685e9 SHA-1: 358e6d977d2132b3c6f962d0955024e28e9c08a0 SHA-256: 84894738741adae52c8b60e67ad641f42ad24ee4a384c700461f7c6f2132f843
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 improve search engine rankings. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=abbots+langley+school+uniform'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a lure to download or access content that ultimately leads to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=abbots+langley+school+uniform In PDF document text
    • http://files.en.lflplatform.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409463/wizupofonaxa-nilipeboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elainejaryart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071315/mopumaditisotix_lizuxugepaz_zuligo_gixemelagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drbobstem-ed.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776006/09bc8caf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.psykotherapist.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739542/mitirasekebokajada.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/1/0435/3540/1111/files/vce_to_free_online_tool.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4818/0634/files/o_que_meio_ambiente.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4347/1010/files/99710276121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2019/7789/files/networking_devices_and_their_functions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1616/files/muboxokiwugosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2020/2663/files/dictionary_of_synonyms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6248/4383/files/27192316602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9705/4631/files/best_boss_gt_8_software_editor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3092/1895/files/73487342157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9303/3117/files/wopovobuwetorunagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8187/6131/files/86489665451.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_off00005a49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A49 5524 bytes
SHA-256: a96113ecbbeb65842106695da1c66faf1305ce4d00564900c6e2e91479df4137
font_01_sfnt_off00006ced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CED 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 5d5a85e7d56b751940e1502afe841d70de19eceb140f245cfeb86fd405ea07ad