Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a29a450be9303c6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:33:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c4627553abb32c774c4d2cc29eedb0d9 SHA-1: 698dbf0026ff8e95676ef1b594ae14dc65247256 SHA-256: a29a450be9303c6c0b3466bfd3034a4640712e5405edf6aeeb9afd493982fbfd
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=cheddars+tucson+menu+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=cheddars+tucson+menu+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.texgermanshepherd.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606006/6a0108d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saint-tims.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164417/ropukalafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jennifercrowderartist.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776728/7130326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sandpiperstudio-photographybychristine.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695372/juvopakuxe_pamexuvojep_dukixuxasesixop_vosomase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurexarin.echoltdqc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/b3620b2.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/1/0434/9083/6645/files/sebutovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6577/7059/files/suzuki_king_quad_service_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9846/4661/files/22979673241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8065/5775/files/gedilosafebejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99324429390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7583/6840/files/mudidinumomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5367/0822/files/ukulele_chords_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8699/5863/files/87283846730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4797/7114/files/belajar_tajwid_untuk_pemula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1645/2258/files/34380295056.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000047e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47E4 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 8195e13655426855ffe80ddfc58ab3e4c92654282ff2c40cb9c34bb81220417f
font_01_sfnt_off00005996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5996 2472 bytes
SHA-256: 9f42e210d4ca0d21e8a2e42a0ef0ed25168a680f89bae2ec6cadf2c412046394
font_02_sfnt_off000064a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A6 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 0b5ddd6e7f0f587c4e74e00c1b1ef0317c2390e0dbf6f2e049b1f4c7779c82a0
font_03_sfnt_off00008792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8792 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 5238d7674f6341cd1fa175b2706d124ba0b52bc477eef0f7017b2d90ea865301