Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a02465ea4cbc821a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 06:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a1a84fd8fe1b92c2140e94bb5175df38 SHA-1: 78a52a727ebae91995dcf310349344191302b6e5 SHA-256: a02465ea4cbc821a21e8cbff87a90bb66d8298f65cfb1e860aa43e4eccc91073
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, which is indicative of a link farm for SEO manipulation. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=detective+byomkesh+bakshi+book+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure by masquerading as a book download.

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=detective+byomkesh+bakshi+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thewarriorlady.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740564/44c38c79de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.playgroundplayersproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453633/44888cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kimkirch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775827/welobozutudirol-fulunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.slaythepe.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381976/nenawozarapib_dixowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smporterauthor.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774993/7599989.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/1/0430/1619/2153/files/jilowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9736/6436/files/buwuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1049/7434/files/sw_kotor_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2794/6904/files/74609173953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0460/8155/files/17930788022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8085/2383/files/18034317669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9875/0629/files/solajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1156/3932/files/29923932180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2656/2722/files/numpy_matrix_vector_multiplication.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3568/1180/files/35777446016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0743/4142/files/kemonafonekuvovif.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://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006de7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DE7 5632 bytes
SHA-256: ca0ec788c6f78d65637f31c9d4e4a93a0d700fc284a1fccc0b65f8f7603fa42b
font_01_sfnt_off000080f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80F9 4756 bytes
SHA-256: 37928785ff10e6dd8419d8f687f34ae273946a8b039447397ec853031f54fc9d
font_02_sfnt_off0000908e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x908E 14652 bytes
SHA-256: 3d52587c41a89617fefe2941bf5b595e1d8b79dd7be209dfbd7805461602e1ca