Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2bd31c21ca0b508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 22:44:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ef139c09a3e1012309f27948c01ab84 SHA-1: 91a5bc671a9dae3421a80ac5e7afdffa6ceb0f68 SHA-256: a2bd31c21ca0b508fa79b40366a51d01231498ee240c1720e62b434e3a33786f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=arsis+std+regular+free', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The presence of numerous external links, including those hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or to distribute malicious content through a link farm. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious redirection or SEO spamming attack pattern.

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=arsis+std+regular+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.armiesoftn.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454916/vixekoguvezatu-zagitematobusor-gilamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cohesionengineering.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739974/bavisixalonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drewwatsonpups.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454791/vufowabuxutafo_tapuzebafujidab_sokeleditunajot.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/1/0430/6580/2905/files/kejaposuxijeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0096/9896/files/61108176150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/28068876324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1800/9250/files/12363594472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9166/files/petals_in_the_wind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4145/5254/files/7367500328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1992/7713/files/vegetable_lasagna_butternut_squash_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0124/0992/files/exemplars_of_evil_3._5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7753/3856/files/sixavojuvejudazusafag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3445/1874/files/43356501078.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_off0000569c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x569C 5064 bytes
SHA-256: 8c3e232661ee9718c6e7ab18858fc72549200aef81170d289a91e6550214f8fb
font_01_sfnt_off000067df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67DF 15876 bytes
SHA-256: 76eeaf41bf0ca2bd01698aaf6aaf4a0b0c3384bbfc45d8e6d44b6c895c281e83
font_02_sfnt_off00009a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A05 16084 bytes
SHA-256: e5245523bd71a78e06ca3300da63f55ad096e28dd8c1a5e83e138be64f7d0aee