Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 948c51ec65c17b64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9b53fc0c78ccf670a54eba0f8c137e90 SHA-1: c2a03632d8c97c4a11ec72a8bcbb89cb4e08fa3a SHA-256: 948c51ec65c17b64e2c97689a526f6a2a01a0037f6a4fa408404d1b6883ecd71
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a lure for 'big data analytics interview questions and answers pdf' and includes a call-to-action button. It embeds multiple links, one of which, https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=big%20data%20analytics%20interview%20questions%20and%20answers%20pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also contains a link farm pointing to various PDFs hosted on Shopify, one of which is https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0273/9362/files/dirigamozotelala.pdf. The presence of a malicious redirector and the SEO-optimized link farm suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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/wb?keyword=big%20data%20analytics%20interview%20questions%20and%20answers%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wookles.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858661/goduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.collettec.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163969/bedane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mammalcommunicationlab.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815015/9634393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.multilanguagebox.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682640/7579488.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/1/0436/0273/9362/files/dirigamozotelala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4334/7877/files/tofaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/xifado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8100/7255/files/cant_hear_on_discord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3302/4929/files/bluejacking_seminar_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0340/3678/files/fatuviwusivavuwese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0643/5232/files/malivovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7827/1641/files/6986624068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kekiwimuzavenomudajelibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1542/1600/files/airline_breathing_apparatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5314/6517/files/dawomijidokozewana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3556/5978/files/41248289111.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_off0000a157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA157 5752 bytes
SHA-256: af9786fdb2508d7d971d215f38097705044e993214a9f3683658bb78d2d20640
font_01_sfnt_off0000b51e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB51E 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 7fce501009667c5b8bfff38ab7a946dd000a0858c9bdddc0f4c1eddde1c05c0f