Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2000a4e31d0d62a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c2b47e88bf248a6cfc8f573bafe7aaf6 SHA-1: 135c65758399dfa3d2f94a236aff7fab0d1c9f99 SHA-256: a2000a4e31d0d62a0903892dcd0a424e646571a2c8957bf769396ffe0c5f9ec6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=sqlite+browser+windows'. This link is presented within the document body, likely as a lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=sqlite+browser+windows In PDF document text
    • http://lefupel.mindsets.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164572/5961620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carolgrice-curran.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/f46e45419816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uniqueaudioconcept.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682802/dfae6d5c4.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/1/0434/5066/3062/files/vojodovawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8942/8637/files/anita_blake_micah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6700/6364/files/vampire_hunter_d_1985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5842/files/zoxopulutovolemimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5935/5558/files/gagivabaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/60478368433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1544/files/60267759601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7780/3931/files/statistical_significance_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/33024546219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5821/7631/files/bivoputosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8430/3775/files/72105464049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0185/6668/files/jedzenie_po_angielsku_wiczenia_dla_dzieci.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_off00007a53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A53 5068 bytes
SHA-256: c28ec00116f01b1eae1f7bb60f8bfeef059c0dddfb1d116a373ad12921afabc8
font_01_sfnt_off00008baa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BAA 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd30803a44675e670812f9ad97eeefc8b1668dacd38b12d25a34dfcc04afa1f
font_02_sfnt_off0000b0eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0EB 16352 bytes
SHA-256: a235935b7da1a3e0dfb4386fa22d70075346861adeac55da3f8f322ddd140fe5