Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1a3ca912f4d0718…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 13:38:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f2e32d4b1ed4371449434b96263e3dcf SHA-1: c79a308929bc0d4c35f8b47f6e044bc339fae462 SHA-256: a1a3ca912f4d071834e38b20d019a6c8cc2a99fd1d209f82876d42dac67cd581
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm, aiming to improve search engine ranking for the malicious content. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=comparative+and+superlative+adjectives+and+adverbs+pdf, which likely serves as the initial entry point for further malicious activity.

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=comparative+and+superlative+adjectives+and+adverbs+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.episcopalcommonprayer.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164130/9303f75bc111bb0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drleeinfo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379409/jelotanazogodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kb-marine.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740665/8047495.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/1/0447/2075/0745/files/ain_t_misbehavin_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2891/4074/files/29859826873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3319/8745/files/bash_shell_scripting_tutorial_point.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9776/0668/files/65252914017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3730/1653/files/36533429808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6346/7414/files/nesirapukugiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0258/5500/files/stardew_valley_how_to_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4041/6678/files/83703253309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4393/6673/files/62446672772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0083/9842/files/monavojoxutitoxefokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4831/files/use_of_cloud_computing_in_business.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/cube_world_real_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3420/5590/files/xanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/firajukoxol.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000991a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x991A 5480 bytes
SHA-256: a223eb7d4cde5d30b41635a18e8648e440b2cb4e059d2160a2c0158e25a34b8a
font_01_sfnt_off0000aba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABA8 13936 bytes
SHA-256: e4c93e99773b7439c16edad11206e0286b4c03c9029fdb5c314e52b82c55194b

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