Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4954594d517d7ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-07-30 22:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a30b32de1c8726e08573a922baf70454 SHA-1: 7131dec4780ad599e4ce229ec3cd7649d269fd6d SHA-256: a4954594d517d7aba749e46bcec6cfbe4266aa42467b8152268f83697c6da9a5
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, a common technique for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites. One of the URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=anne+bradstreet+the+prologue+analysis+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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=anne+bradstreet+the+prologue+analysis+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.invergowriehomestead.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682897/rebodujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ssscorp.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380842/nusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lord-and-associates.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437484/3558899.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/1/0439/1682/0635/files/zidowazanaxevevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7222/4421/files/32045560635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9376/1941/files/98748741730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3160/0031/files/xasivazajifuzifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7421/4306/files/rexefiwewojufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8734/0454/files/44353103858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5687/4151/files/86503355530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0042/9731/files/funuvatuzunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5283/4717/files/bidesoputilizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7486/3772/files/xixedipemabisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9961/7448/files/xisebuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/josanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3591/7464/files/28261547165.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_off000092e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92E2 5416 bytes
SHA-256: f4ede73936ab4f2012d64ef5ce66256036c82a5784bfe3d2112b48dff03ddf0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000a53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA53C 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 2c4093cd669d51ff924e7baa287cdbf9c1e654cd9a78fb3ab4c4aa0783897770

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