Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a7a1b7f5fbb1a8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 02:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7970c1a0c26b71bbf4bb269f9734e111 SHA-1: 232af57d2d0b60ccbfd541fc9effa5107b3055f9 SHA-256: 9a7a1b7f5fbb1a8dcb1645580ff7fc05136441db4026789a0fff97a9e1e28882
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=first+and+second+conditional+exercises+multiple+choice+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of numerous other links, some pointing to benign Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to mask the malicious redirector.

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=first+and+second+conditional+exercises+multiple+choice+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.exetermindfulnesswelcome.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/5e89076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quantumology.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874300/246331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renuko.deanteamgolfcartsaccessories.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/2681211.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/1/0435/5883/0231/files/46187035652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/buralobopituvogiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0016/files/59166378728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8307/1650/files/autonics_catalogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4106/2040/files/blink-_182_flyswatter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6540/5603/files/aulas_de_violo_para_iniciantes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9571/files/advantages_disadvantages_mother_tongue_based_multilingual_education.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2316/3801/files/51537675880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9826/8065/files/medical_certificate_for_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3551/6318/files/the_secret_lives_of_alexandra_david_neel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8014/6339/files/62771060973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9986/4734/files/xatavanivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8482/5247/files/1768788134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0189/4296/files/english_to_afrikaans_dictionary_download_free.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000637f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x637F 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 2813fbf9c3e2853246f4289840e8475d0debcf6116266b0afce406041a757351
font_01_sfnt_off000075cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75CC 14096 bytes
SHA-256: 957f9b733cdbb4515973ee6f85257d635e6d456f45645c805188e0108296128a
font_02_sfnt_off0000a15c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA15C 16060 bytes
SHA-256: df1d2c903cabdf2976887e260da0b25217edeb5ce2b71f315001024534e8e210